In the second week in July 1945, the floating dry dock was towed to the Ryukyus where she transported equipment between various locations around Okinawa and docked warships for repairs.
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Popper eventually relented, after admitting that the larger dreadnought type design would also warrant the construction of a new floating dry dock, which would significantly increase the cost of the project.
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A Japanese Mitsubishi A6M reconnaissance aircraft reported " two large aircraft carriers " at Seeadler Harbor on 22 April 1945, which were actually the Large Auxiliary Floating Dry Docks ASDB-2 and ASDB-4.
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The floating dry dock that was available had a capacity of only 4, 500 tons, while the " Thomas " was an 11, 000 ton vessel, and 118 feet longer than the dry dock.
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After being hoisted slowly toward the surface by derricks on surface vessels, it was to be slid on top of a semi-submersible barge, resembling a floating dry dock, and towed to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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_After a month of sea trials and training on Lake Michigan, the Hammerhead was placed in a floating dry dock and towed down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, where it arrived April 8, 1944.
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The collision tore a hole in the hull and caused some minor flooding . " Gneisenau " reached Kiel the following day, where she went into a floating dry dock at the Deutsche Werke dockyard.
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In a matter of weeks, each will be carried on a series of rails to the edge of the pier and passed _ slowly, carefully _ into a floating dry dock and then finally into the water.
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But no crowds gathered Monday when the gargantuan steel platform _ thought to be the largest floating dry dock in the Americas _ left Portland on a nearly round-the-world journey to its new home in the Bahamas.
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The facility has manufactured the steel base pontoon of a floating dry dock for the Australian Marine Complex, and has won orders for two 143m Diving Support Vessels and one Well Stimulation Vessel from Singapore company Marfield Limited.
