on a dry platform. Dry docks are used for the construction, maintenance, and repair of ships, boats, and other watercraft. The use of dry docks in China...
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Auxiliary floating drydock (redirect from Auxiliary Floating Dry Docks Lite)
auxiliary floating drydock is a type of US Navy auxiliary floating dry dock. Floating dry docks are able to submerge underwater and to be placed under a ship...
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This is a list of the largest dry docks in the world, including excavated and floating docks. "Dimensions and Capacity". alabamashipyard.com/facilities...
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Commercial Docks were a large group of docks in Rotherhithe, South East London, located on the south bank (the Surrey side) of the River Thames. The docks operated...
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St Nazaire Raid (category Articles containing German-language text)
British amphibious attack on the heavily defended Normandie dry dock at St Nazaire in German-occupied France during the Second World War. The operation...
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providers of submarines for the United States Navy. Founded as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Co. in 1886, Newport News Shipbuilding has built more...
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Long Beach Naval Shipyard (section Dry Docks)
Terminal Island Naval Dry Docks were authorized in June 1940, and construction began in August 1940 on one large drydock and two smaller docks. Recreation facilities...
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Brandenburg-class battleship (category Articles containing German-language text)
with the hull armor would have made the ship too large to be docked in most German dry docks. Variants with four to six single-gun turrets were also prepared...
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2022 Nord Stream pipeline sabotage (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
April 2023[update], the yacht was being kept in a German dry dock for investigation. In April 2023, German law enforcement officials suspected that the yacht...
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Hindenburg. He began operations to refloat the destroyers using an old German dry dock he purchased and subsequently modified. He was able to lift 24 of his...
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