tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57177846021105107482024-03-14T00:52:09.827-07:00Olongapo Subic DrydocksUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717784602110510748.post-24234845582506341532011-08-01T11:05:00.001-07:002011-08-01T11:05:47.192-07:00<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>the sunken AFDB-1 "Big Blue" is SYMBOLIC Of the kind of serious economic and political challenges Guam faces. </div><div><br /></div><div>One Man's Loss is Another Man's Opportunity.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>in the very near future, we will again be put to a test, </div><div>are we in our old fighting form? </div><div>do we still have that can do spirit?</div><div>does subic bay still has the world's best welders?</div><div><br /></div><div>we realize that most of the original tigers are working overseas and many who are still here are past their productive age. there is therefore a need to train for a new breed of ship repair workers.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Both TESDA and LGU does not have the funds to sponsor this type of program.</div><div>Our constituents can't afford the cost of such training and</div><div>no school our area is offering a ship repair course. </div><div><br /></div><div>SOLUTION: Dual-Training System (RA 7696)</div><div><br /></div><div>in a meeting with TESDA week, </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717784602110510748.post-56926985824387558962011-08-01T10:29:00.000-07:002011-08-01T10:37:19.495-07:00dewey drydock 1905, 1905-1942<center style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/14/0701.htm">http://www.navsource.org/archives/14/0701.htm</a><br /><br /><hr /></center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><u><b><i><span>Yard Floating Drydock</span></i></b>:</u></span><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Laid down in early-1905 by Maryland Steel Co., at Sparrow Point, MD.</li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Launched, 10 June 1905</li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Dewey's first lift was on Friday 23 June 1905 when she test lifted the armored cruiser <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/acr7/acr7.htm"><b>USS <i>Colorado</i> (ACR-7)</b></a></li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Dewey's second test lift was the battleship <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/04a.htm"><b>USS <i>Iowa</i> (BB-4)</b></a>.</li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Commissioned <b>USS Dewey (Drydock # 1)</b>, date unknown</li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><b>USS <i>Dewey</i></b> was under tow from 28 December 1905 to 9 July 1906 enroute from Virginia to Olongapo, Luzon, Philippine Islands by <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/02/0216.htm"><b>USS <i>Caesar</i> (Collier # 16)</b></a><b>, <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/02/0215.htm">USS <i>Brutus</i> (Collier # 15)</a>, <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/06/0604.htm">USS <i>Glacier</i> (Stores Ship # 4)</a></b> and <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/47/47050.htm"><b><i>Potomac</i> (Fleet Tug # 50)</b></a></li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Reclassified <b>YFD-1</b> in the Navy's fleet-wide assignment of alphanumeric hull numbers, 17 July 1920</li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">At the outbreak of World War II <b>USS <i>Dewey</i></b> was at Naval Station Subic Bay</li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">To prevent the drydock from falling into enemy hands she was towed to Mariveles harbor on the tip of the Bataan Peninsula and there she was scuttled, 8 April 1942 by her docking officer LT. C.J. Weschler</li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; "><em style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; ">Scuttling</em> is the act of deliberately sinking a <em style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; ">ship</em> by allowing water to flow into the <b>...</b> In order to avoid capture</span></li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown</li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Final Disposition, sunk, 8 April 1942, raised by the Japanese and sunk again by US Forces</li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><b>USS <i>Dewey</i></b> earned one battle star for World War II service<hr /><u><b><i><span>Specifications</span></i></b>:</u> <span><br /><b><i>Displacement</i></b> 18,500 t.<br /><b><i>Length</i></b> 501 ¾'<br /><b><i>Beam</i></b> 100'<br /><b><i>Draft</i></b> 6 ½' (empty)<br /><b><i>Complement</i></b> unknown<br /><b><i>Armament</i></b> unknown</span><hr /><center><table border="5" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="d3d3d3"><tbody><tr><th>Click On Image<br />For Full Size Image</th><th>Size</th><th colspan="2">Image Description</th><th>Source</th></tr><tr><td align="center"><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/14/14070103.jpg"><img border="3" src="http://www.navsource.org/archives/14/tn/14070103.gif" alt="Dewey" a="" /></a></td><td align="center">766k</td><td colspan="2"><span><b>USS <i>Dewey</i> (Dry Dock # 1)</b> during test lift of the battleship <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/04a.htm"><b>USS <i>Iowa</i> (BB-4)</b></a>, 23 June 1905, in the Patuxent River MD.<br />Post card - Maker; Polychrome A-7642, Published by The American News Company New York, Leigzig, Dresden. Printed in Germany. No copyright. Postmarked, 3 January-1912, aboard <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/47/47050.htm"><b>USS <i>Potomac</i> (Fleet Tug # 50)</b></a>, probably at Norfolk Navy Yard.</span></td><td><span>Bruce D. Liddel</span></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/14/14070101.jpg"><img border="3" src="http://www.navsource.org/archives/14/tn/14070101.gif" alt="Dewey" a="" /></a></td><td align="center">102k</td><td colspan="2"><span>Artwork by F. Muller, depicting the floating drydock <b>USS <i>Dewey</i> (Dry Dock # 1)</b> during her voyage from the United States to the Philippines, under tow by <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/02/0216.htm"><b>USS <i>Caesar</i> (Collier # 16)</b></a><b>, <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/02/0215.htm">USS <i>Brutus</i> (Collier # 15)</a>, <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/06/0604.htm">USS <i>Glacier</i> (Stores Ship # 4)</a></b> and <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/47/47050.htm"><b>USS <i>Potomac</i>(Fleet Tug # 50)</b></a>, in 1906.<br /><i>US photo # NH 54498</i> from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.</span></td><td><span>US Naval Historical Center</span></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/14/14070102.jpg"><img border="3" src="http://www.navsource.org/archives/14/tn/14070102.gif" alt="Dewey" a="" /></a></td><td align="center">99k</td><td colspan="2"><span>Artwork by F. Muller, depicting the floating drydock <b>USS <i>Dewey</i> (Dry Dock # 1)</b> during her voyage from the United States to the Philippines, under tow by <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/02/0216.htm"><b>USS <i>Caesar</i> (Collier # 16)</b></a><b>, <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/02/0215.htm">USS <i>Brutus</i> (Collier # 15)</a>, <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/06/0604.htm">USS <i>Glacier</i> (Stores Ship # 4)</a></b> and <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/47/47050.htm"><b>USS <i>Potomac</i>(Fleet Tug # 50)</b></a>, in 1906.<br /><i>US photo # NH 54499</i> from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.</span></td><td><span>US Naval Historical Center</span></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/acr8/acr0834.jpg"><img border="3" src="http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/acr8/tn/acr0834.jpg" alt="Dewey" a="" /></a></td><td align="center">68k</td><td colspan="2"><span>Floating Drydock <b>USS <i>Dewey</i> (Dry Dock # 1)</b> at Olongapo, Philippine Islands, circa 1 to 4 April 1907 with <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/acr8/acr8.htm"><b>USS <i>Maryland</i> (Armored Cruiser # 3)</b></a> in the dock.<br /><i>US Navy photo # NH 50360</i> from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1967.</span></td><td><span>US Naval Historical Center</span></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/14/0800802.jpg"><img border="3" src="http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/tn/0800802.gif" alt="Shark" a="" /></a></td><td align="center">115k</td><td colspan="2"><span>Floating Drydock <b><i>Dewey</i> (Dry Dock # 1)</b> at Olongapo Naval Station, Philippine Islands, circa 1910, with <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08008.htm"><b>USS <i>Shark</i> (Submarine # 8)</b></a> in the dock. The gunboat <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/09038.htm"><b>USS <i>Elcano</i>(Gunboat # 38)</b></a> is also in the drydock, in the right background.<br /><i>US Naval Historical Center photo # NH 86963</i> from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center</span></td><td><span>US Naval Historical Center</span></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/0500303.jpg"><img border="3" src="http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/tn/0500303.gif" alt="Chauncey" /></a></td><td align="center">115k</td><td colspan="2"><span>Floating Drydock <b>USS <i>Dewey</i> (Dry Dock # 1)</b> at Olongapo Naval Station, Philippine Islands, circa 1910, with <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/003.htm"><b>USS <i>Chauncey</i> (Destroyer # 3)</b></a> in the dock.<br /><i>US Navy photo # NH 73124</i> from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, donation of Mr. F.M. Deats, 1963</span></td><td><span>US Naval Historical Center</span></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/0500306.jpg"><img border="3" src="http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/tn/0500306.gif" alt="Chauncey" /></a></td><td align="center">81k</td><td colspan="2"><span>Floating Drydock <b>USS <i>Dewey</i> (Dry Dock # 1)</b> at Olongapo Naval Station, Philippine Islands, circa 1910, with a stern view of <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/003.htm"><b>USS <i>Chauncey</i> (Destroyer # 3)</b></a> in the dock.<br /><i>US Navy photo # NH 73125</i> from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center</span></td><td><span>Paul Rebold</span></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/0800512.jpg"><img border="3" src="http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/tn/0800512.gif" alt="Moccasin" a="" /></a></td><td align="center">122k</td><td colspan="2"><span>Floating Drydock <b>USS <i>Dewey</i> (Dry Dock # 1)</b> at Olongapo Naval Station, Philippine Islands, circa 1912 with Submarines<br /><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08007.htm"><b>USS <i>A-6 </i>(Submarine # 7)</b></a><b> ex-Porpoise </b>,<br /><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08005.htm"><b>USS <i>A-4 </i>(Submarine #5)</b></a><b> ex-Moccasin</b> and<br /><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08003.htm"><b>USS <i>A-2 </i>(Submarine #3)</b></a><b> ex-Adder</b><br />in the dock, circa 1912. The bow of their tender, <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/46/46909.htm"><b>USS <i>Mohican</i></b></a>, is at left, with an anchor suspended from her starboard cathead.<br /><i>US Navy photo # NH 90185</i> from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center</span></td><td><span>US Naval Historical Center</span></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/0800513.jpg"><img border="3" src="http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/tn/0800513.gif" alt="Mohican" a="" /></a></td><td align="center">87k</td><td colspan="2"><span>Floating Drydock <b>USS <i>Dewey</i> (Dry Dock # 1)</b> at Olongapo Naval Station, Philippine Islands, circa 1912 with Submarines<br /><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08007.htm"><b>USS <i>A-6 </i>(Submarine # 7)</b></a><b> ex-Porpoise </b>,<br /><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08005.htm"><b>USS <i>A-4 </i>(Submarine # 5)</b></a><b> ex-Moccasin</b> and<br /><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08003.htm"><b>USS <i>A-2 </i>(Submarine # 3)</b></a><b> ex-Adder</b><br />in the dock, circa 1912, with their tender, <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/46/46909.htm"><b>USS <i>Mohican</i></b></a>.<br /><i>US Navy photo # NH 90181</i> from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center</span></td><td><span>US Naval Historical Center</span></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/c17/c1709.jpg"><img border="3" src="http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/c17/tn/c1709.jpg" alt="Galveston" /></a></td><td align="center">63k</td><td colspan="2"><span>Floating Drydock <b>USS <i>Dewey</i></b> at Olongapo Naval Station, Philippine Islands, circa 1916 with <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/c17/c17.htm"><b>USS <i>Galveston</i> (Cruiser # 17)</b></a> in the dock.<br /><i>US Navy photo # NH 69717</i>, courtesy of Arthur B. Furnas, 1969.</span></td><td><span>US Naval Historical Center</span></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/005/0400514.jpg"><img border="3" src="http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/tn/0400514.jpg" alt="Milwaukee" /></a></td><td align="center">87k</td><td colspan="2"><span><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/005/04005.htm"><b>USS <i>Milwaukee</i> (CL-5)</b></a> Sailors working on the ship's propellers, while she was drydocked in <b>USS <i>Dewey</i> (YFD-1)</b> at Naval Station Olongapo, Philippine Islands, 25 February 1929.<br /><i>US Navy photo # NH 64618</i>, donation of Franklin Moran, 1967.</span></td><td><span>US Naval Historical Center</span></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/0813904.jpg"><img border="3" src="http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/tn/0813904.gif" alt="S-30-35" a="" /></a></td><td align="center">128k</td><td colspan="2"><span>The Floating Drydock <b>USS <i>Dewey</i> (YFD-1)</b> with <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/acr4/acr4.htm"><b>USS <i>Pittsburgh</i></b> (CA-4)</a> in the dock is in the background at Naval Station Olongapo, Philippine Islands in March 1929. Submarine crewmen pose with a 4"/50 deck gun on board an "S-Type" submarine. The submarines are probably;<br /><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08135.htm"><b>USS <i>S-30</i> (SS-135)</b></a> and<br /><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08136.htm"><b>USS <i>S-31</i> (SS-136)</b></a>.<br />Behind them are (from front to rear); <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08140.htm"><br /><b>USS <i>S-35</i> (SS-140)</b></a>, <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08138.htm"><br /><b>USS <i>S-33</i> (SS-138)</b></a>, <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08137.htm"><br /><b>USS <i>S-32</i> (SS-137)</b></a>, and<br /><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08139.htm"><b>USS <i>S-34</i> (SS-139)</b></a>.<br />Photographed from <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/36/3605.htm"><b>USS <i>Beaver</i> (AS-5)</b></a>.<br /><i>US Navy photo # NH 51830</i></span></td><td><span>US Naval Historical Center</span></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/031/0403120.jpg"><img border="3" src="http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/031/tn/0403120.jpg" alt="Augusta" /></a></td><td align="center">68k</td><td colspan="2"><span>Floating Drydock <b>USS <i>Dewey</i> (YFD-1)</b> at Olongapo Naval Station, Philippine Islands, 29 January 1936 with <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/04/031/04031.htm"><b>USS Augusta (CA-31)</b></a> in the dock.<br /><i>US Navy photo # NH # 78379</i> from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.</span></td><td><span>US Naval Historical Center</span></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/02/09021209.jpg"><img border="3" src="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/02/tn/09021209.gif" alt="Jason" a="" /></a></td><td align="center">112k</td><td colspan="2"><span><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/02/0212.htm"><b>USS <i>Jason</i> (AV-2)</b></a> dry docked in <b>USS <i>Dewey</i> (YFD-1)</b> at Naval Station Olongapo, Philippine Islands, 9 March 1932. <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/36/3609.htm"><b>USS <i>Canopus</i> (AS-9)</b></a> is in the upper right, with four submarines moored alongside. The outboard submarine is <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/08/08143.htm"><b>USS <i>S-38</i> (SS-143)</b></a>.<br /><i>US National Archives photo # 80-CF-22672-1</i> a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.</span></td><td><span>US Naval Historical Center</span></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/14/09021210.jpg"><img border="3" src="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/02/tn/09021210.gif" alt="Jason" a="" /></a></td><td align="center">73k</td><td colspan="2"><span><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/02/0212.htm"><b>USS <i>Jason</i> (AV-2)</b></a> drydocked in <b>USS <i>Dewey</i> (YFD-1)</b>, at Naval Station Olongapo, Philippine Islands, 8 March 1932.<br /><i>US National Archives photo # 80-CF-22672-3</i> a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.</span></td><td><span>US Naval Historical Cente</span></td></tr></tbody></table></center></li>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717784602110510748.post-65961424032705636322011-08-01T09:11:00.000-07:002011-08-01T11:06:18.745-07:00dewey drydock 1906<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AU_ZA_z6JfA/TjbhgAQBOFI/AAAAAAAACT0/HqmQpFP-R9k/s1600/Dewey-drydock-arrives-olongapo-9July1906.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AU_ZA_z6JfA/TjbhgAQBOFI/AAAAAAAACT0/HqmQpFP-R9k/s400/Dewey-drydock-arrives-olongapo-9July1906.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635939923640006738" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MdbDrCgsP2k/TjbhbtVYHnI/AAAAAAAACTs/TTaB79z4D18/s1600/spanish-gate-ORIGINAL-1908.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MdbDrCgsP2k/TjbhbtVYHnI/AAAAAAAACTs/TTaB79z4D18/s400/spanish-gate-ORIGINAL-1908.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635939849842728562" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nOrjM0i160E/TjbhQuIGh1I/AAAAAAAACTk/CrLUdyw25xQ/s1600/DEWEY-DRYDOCK-from-parola-1908.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 188px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nOrjM0i160E/TjbhQuIGh1I/AAAAAAAACTk/CrLUdyw25xQ/s400/DEWEY-DRYDOCK-from-parola-1908.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635939661076924242" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9FMqc2Wgp2A/TjbhJHYEaoI/AAAAAAAACTc/eoj5u9dB1z8/s1600/Dewey-drydock-uss-pensylvania.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9FMqc2Wgp2A/TjbhJHYEaoI/AAAAAAAACTc/eoj5u9dB1z8/s400/Dewey-drydock-uss-pensylvania.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635939530415827586" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div>From 28 December 1905 - 9 July 1906 she underwent the greatest sea-towing feat of it's day. It took four ships to tow the Dewey Dry-dock 12,000 miles from the U.S. East coast across the Atlantic, into the Mediterranean Sea, through the Suez Canal, Red Sea and into the Indian Ocean and ending the journey at Olongapo, Luzon, Philippines. </div><div><br /></div><div>original subic drydock</div><div>http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cacunithistories/Dewey_Drydock.html</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>1942 start of construction in five different shipyards around USA. the construction was top secret like the making of atomic bomb. it was the original "transformer" and "voltes 5" design as we know it today.</div><div>1943 commisioned</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>1951 towed from pearl to guam</div><div>1952 operational in guam</div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div>http://abitabout.com/Philippine+Navy</div><div><br /></div><div>http://chinamarine.org/Philippines.aspx</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717784602110510748.post-21178871619596952052011-08-01T08:30:00.000-07:002011-08-01T08:31:49.344-07:00AFDL-21<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FzCqyr36nI4/TjbG3v4CiHI/AAAAAAAACTU/n2Yr9i12g0U/s1600/afdl-21-salva.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 275px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FzCqyr36nI4/TjbG3v4CiHI/AAAAAAAACTU/n2Yr9i12g0U/s400/afdl-21-salva.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635910644747372658" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><u><b><i><span >AFDL-21 Class Small Auxiliary Floating Dry Dock</span></i></b>:</u></span><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Laid down by George D. Auchter Co., Jacksonville, FL.</li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Commissioned <b>AFD-21</b>, date unknown</li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Redesignated <b>AFDL-21</b>, 1 August 1946</li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Decommissioned, date unknown</li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Transferred to the Philippines navy in 1961, redesignated <b><i>YD-204</i></b></li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Struck from the Naval Register, 31 March 1989</li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Sold to Malayan Towage and Salvage Corp.. SALVTUG, 16 March 1990, in service at Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippines</li></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><u><b><i><span >Specifications</span></i></b>:</u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span ><br /><b><i>Displacement</i></b> 12,000 t.<br /><b><i>Length</i></b> 200'<br /><b><i>Beam</i></b> 64'<br /><b><i>Inside</i></b> width 45'<br /><b><i>Draft</i></b> 3' 3" (lt), 31' 4" (flooded)<br /><b><i>Lifting capacity</i></b> 1,000 tons</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717784602110510748.post-21869449701493541822011-08-01T08:16:00.000-07:002011-08-01T08:30:26.143-07:00subicdock<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iSLMFPdorYA/TjbD-vZLv4I/AAAAAAAACTM/KupLAmkWzXI/s1600/subicdock-drydocks.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iSLMFPdorYA/TjbD-vZLv4I/AAAAAAAACTM/KupLAmkWzXI/s400/subicdock-drydocks.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635907466342154114" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(28, 40, 55); font-family: Georgia, Times; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 18px; "><em class="bbc" style="font-style: italic !important; ">Photo taken in November, 2010 from aboard c.s. Cable Retriever, berthed at Rivera Point, SBMA</em></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span class="style35" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: 24px; color: rgb(51, 51, 204); ">SUBICDOCK</span><br /><span class="style36" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; ">SUBIC DRYDOCK CORPORATION</span></span><br /><br /><br /><table width="800" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border bg style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><tbody><tr><th width="53" scope="col"><p align="right" class="style37" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; "><span class="style38" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">ADDRESS:<br /><br /><br />TEL NO:<br />FAX NO:</span><br /></p></th><th width="15" scope="col"> </th><th width="202" scope="col"><div align="justify"><span class="style36" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; ">Bldg. 17 Gridley cor. Schley Roads<br />SRF Compound,Subic Bay Freeport Zone<br />2222 Philippines<br />(047) 252-8183 to 85 & 89<br />(047) 252-8201</span></div></th></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717784602110510748.post-37605680545704350872011-08-01T08:14:00.001-07:002011-08-01T08:15:27.654-07:00Floating drydock back at Subic Freeport<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-D1RyQ4hc3q8/TjbC3rSp6XI/AAAAAAAACTE/CWr9nYOTIxc/s1600/AFDM.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 201px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-D1RyQ4hc3q8/TjbC3rSp6XI/AAAAAAAACTE/CWr9nYOTIxc/s400/AFDM.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635906245470316914" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-size: x-small; ">June 04, 2007</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">By Malou Dungog<br /><br /><a href="http://biz.balita.ph/html/article.php?story=20070604132851315" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 81, 119); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; ">http://biz.balita.ph/html/article.php?story=20070604132851315</a><br /><br />Fifteen years after the floating dry dock was towed out of Subic Bay as part of the 1992 US base withdrawal, the sophisticated equipment has been returned here as this premier Freeport zone is now back in ship repair business.<br /><br />Subic Drydock, a subsidiary of prominent U.S.-based ship repair service provider Cabras Marine Corporation, announced the arrival of AFDM-5 floating dry dock on Saturday which would revive the operations of the defunct Ship Repair Facilities (SRF) here.<br /><br />Cabras is a private firm which has been considered as the leading ship repair service provider of tug-boats, salvage vessels, and waterfront maintenance for the US Navy and commercial vessels in Guam and Micronesia for over 30 years.<br /><br />Shutdown in 1992 after the historic withdrawal of US Naval troops and facilities, the floating dry docks (AFDM-5) was towed to Hawaii, displacing thousands of highly-skilled direct Filipino ship repair employees and indirect workers.<br /><br />Cabras, through its sister company, Malayan Towage and Salvage Corp. (MTSC) was able to purchase the AFDM-5 to the State-government of Guam after the US Armed Forces donated the sophisticated ship repair machinery after it was decommissioned supposedly for lack of operational and technical manpower that "belongs to former Filipino base workers."<br /><br />In October 2005, Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) Chairman Feliciano G. Salonga and administrator Armand C. Arreza signed a long-term lease contract with Subic Drydock Corporation President and CEO Catalino Bondoc for the setting up of a P275 million ship repair facilities.<br /><br />Salonga said that the return of the floating dry dock would open job opportunities, particularly to those highly skilled US base workers who were trained and used to be employed with the SRF during US Navy days.<br /><br />Shortly after the contract signing, Bondoc clarified that while the floating docks were strictly utilized for military purpose, it will now be servicing commercial clienteles for ships like inter-island sized vessels and ferries.<br /><br />He added that Subic Dry Dock would also be offering ship repair service to Philippine Navy ships and other Navy vessels of countries within the Asia-Pacific region.<br /><br />Bondoc also disclosed that international shipping market will be the primary target client of the project, particularly vessels operating in the Asian Region. These vessels are represented by international shipping agents composed mostly of customers of Malayan group of companies.<br /><br />Subic Dry Dock will also be eyeing service contracts with 88 domestic shipping companies operating 315 domestic vessels.<br /><br />Subic Dry Dock will also process to secure the Master Ship Repair Agreement (MSRA) and be accredited for US Navy ship repair contracts that require dry docking and repair services particularly from the Military Sealift Command based in Yokohama, Japan .<br /><br />"Initially, we will be hiring 150 workers which will be made up of former SRF workers who will also be in-charge as trainers to new breed and young ship repair workers," Subic Dock Project Director Gerald Hammond said.<br /><br />The project will be employing 600 skilled and semi-skilled workers composed mostly of those who used to be stationed in the SRF area for their familiarity on the dock and at the same time train apprentices.<br /><br />The company's total capital expenditure of P276 million will be used to acquire the dry docks amounting to P165 million while the remaining amount of P110 million would be allocated for the improvement berthing and other port facilities of the Bravo pier inside the SRF compound such as the administrative office building, machine shop and warehouse.<br /><br />The AFDM-5 floating dry dock is a wielded structural steel, capable of accommodating ships of 18,000 tons displacement with length-span of up to 150 meters.<br /><br />Subic Freeport <b>bested other port areas</b> that the company explored for the setting-up of its ship repair facility project such as the Sarangani Bay in General Santos and Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam .<br /><br />The ship repair facility is expected to be completed and operational in two months after the arrival of another dry dock to support its operations and upgrade handling capabilities that will surely bring new hope and bright future to former SRF workers. (PNA)</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717784602110510748.post-71075780392726539812011-08-01T08:12:00.001-07:002011-08-01T08:14:20.087-07:00Subic floating drydock capable of servicing 18,000 tonner ships<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e5a5PT-R5_A/TjbCfrAy_aI/AAAAAAAACS8/Ie0zW4DjJM8/s1600/afdm-USS%2BResourceful%2B%2528AFDM-5%2529.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-e5a5PT-R5_A/TjbCfrAy_aI/AAAAAAAACS8/Ie0zW4DjJM8/s400/afdm-USS%2BResourceful%2B%2528AFDM-5%2529.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635905833078554018" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">Floating dry dock a boost to Subic ship-repair industry<br /><br />By Henry Empeño , manila standard, Dec 12, 2007<br /><br /><br />SUBIC BAY FREEPORT—Fifteen years after it was towed out of Subic Bay during the withdrawal of the US Navy, the Auxiliary Floating Drydock Medium 5 (AFDM-5) is now happily bringing back the glory days of Subic’s ship-repair industry.<br /><br />Long regarded as a familiar fixture at Subic’s Ship Repair Facility until 1992, the AFDM-5 is now back to its old home at Bravo Pier here—a bulky, seemingly ungainly hulk of machinery that, despite the passage of years, is helping Subic gain new fame as a center for maritime commerce.<br /><br />The AFDM-5 is essentially a marine garage where vessels can be brought in for repairs or maintenance.<br /><br />But this special garage—which can be submerged under a marine vessel, then raised to lift the vessel out of the water—is now again the shining star at Bravo Pier, where the newly formed Subic Drydock Corp. (Subicdock) has established, in the last six months, a thriving ship-repair operation.<br /><br />Subicdock general manager Gerald “Gerry” James Hammond, a former US Navy officer, said that since the AFDM-5 was brought back to Subic in June, it has already serviced 18 vessels—an average of three ship-repair projects each month.<br /><br />“We have already serviced many ships, including our own tugboats and barges,” said Hammond, who got his first assignment in the US Navy as dock personnel in 1976 and served onboard for 13 years.<br /><br />“Right now we got the superferry Westpac Express out from Guam,” Hammond said proudly, referring to the high-speed vessel used by the US Marines’ Military Sealift Command (MSC). “We got a lot of float repairs, but this is really the first US float we got since we opened up.”<br /><br />With the AFDM-5’s capacity to take in ships weighing up to 18,000 tons and spanning up to 150 meters, Subicdock’s P275-million ship-repair venture here is turning out to be a highly viable investment, said Subicdock president Catalino Bondoc.<br /><br />“It took us a lot of money to bring the dry dock in here, but we are happy because it is now clear in our mind what we are planning to do with this facility,” he added.<br /><br />It was Bondoc, who, as chief executive officer of Malayan Towage and Salvage Corp., brought the AFDM-5 back to Subic in June after proposing the ship-repair facility project to the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA).<br /><br />Brought to Guam in 1992 when the US Navy departed from Subic, the AFDM-5 first served in the repair of small- and medium-sized vessels of the US Marine’s MSC, as well as commercial ships.<br /><br />Thereafter, it was sold to Cabras Marine Corp., a private ship-repair company based in Guam and Micronesia.<br /><br />In 1999 Cabras awarded the AFDM-5 to its subsidiary Malayan Towage, the largest towage and salvage company in the Philippines, reportedly for P165 million. Malayan, thereafter, towed the floating dry dock to Manila and put in place additional equipment, including a 100-ton-capacity floating crane.<br /><br />In June 2007, to the delight of some 50 former Subic dry-dock workers, AFDM-5 arrived at Bravo Pier to regain its title as the centerpiece of Subic’s ship-repair industry.<br /><br />Since then, the AFDM-5 had shown “exceptional performance” in the hands of its veteran crew, said James Edge, director of the Asian Navigation Ltd., a customer of Subicdock.<br /><br />“The shipyard has been working the whole hours to ensure that the deadlines are met, and the jobs are delivered on time. So, instead of going somewhere else, vessels now go to Subic for repairs,” said Edge, who also said that Subicdock’s newfound reputation for reliability is spreading in the maritime industry.<br /><br />The good news about Subicdock must have also reached businessmen who knew a winner when they see one. According to Bondoc, some Japanese and Indonesian businessmen have lately offered $7 million for the AFDM-5, but he turned down the proposals.<br /><br />“We know that ship repair is a viable operation here in Subic, and there are lots of services we can do for the shipping industry in this area. There is a lot more that we can do here in Subic than what we can do with the $7 million,” Bondoc said.<br /><br />Because of the AFDM-5, Bondoc said that Subicdock is now able to compete with ship-repair facilities in the United States—like Guam, for example, which has an AFDB, or Auxiliary Floating Drydock Big.<br /><br />Bondoc said Subicdock’s competitiveness stems from Subic’s free- port status, which allows the firm to bring in machinery and materials tax-free, as well as Subic’s pool of skilled manpower that is relatively cheaper than those in other countries.<br /><br />“We are really in for a long term here in Subic because of this edge, which is very cost-effective for us and our customers,” he added.<br /><br />Bondoc also said that while Subicdock is gearing to provide ship-repair services, it is also considering a long-term plan for boat assembly in partnership with European watercraft designers and builders.<br /><br />“We could have a technical tie-up wherein they could bring parts for, say, tugboats and we will assemble them. Our prospective partners could also use Subic as a base to sell or export our products,” he said.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717784602110510748.post-61142877529746831882011-08-01T08:09:00.001-07:002011-08-01T08:11:45.558-07:00SUBIC DRY DOCK BACK IN BUSINESS & SHIP REPAIR WORK COMING IN<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">Subic's reberthed dry dock is bringing repair orders in<br />Floating drydock revives Subic ship repair industry</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">dec 2007</span></div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5Zx2KPw6MFA/TjbBw7Mvo8I/AAAAAAAACS0/5dVX1LBf3xE/s1600/AFDB-subic.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 392px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5Zx2KPw6MFA/TjbBw7Mvo8I/AAAAAAAACS0/5dVX1LBf3xE/s400/AFDB-subic.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635905029969781698" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">Almost a decade and a half ago, Filipino workers watched in gloomy silence while she was towed away to her new home at a US military base in Guam.<br /><br />Now, the Auxiliary Floating Drydock Medium 5 (AFDM-5) — operated mostly by its former technicians during US Navy days is reviving the ship repair industry here-- helping Subic re-establish its status as a maritime center.<br /><br />The AFDM-5 is now the main feature at Subic’s Bravo Pier, where the newly formed Subic Drydock Corporation (Subicdock) has established in the last six months a base for the operation of a ship repair facility.<br /><br />Former US Navy officer Gerald “Gerry” James Hammond, who now serves as Subicdock general manager, said that since the AFDM-5 was brought back to Subic last June, it has already serviced 18 clients.<br /><br />“We have already serviced many ships, including our own vessels — tugboats and barges,” said Hammond, who got his first assignment in the US Navy as dock personnel in 1976 and remained on board for 13 years.<br /><br />“Now we got the super ferry Westpac Express out from Guam. We got a lot of float repairs, but (the Westpac Express) was really the first US float we got since we opened up,” he said, referring to the high-speed super ferry used by the US Military Sealift Command (MSC), which is undergoing repair here.<br /><br />Now, the “exceptional performance” of the AFDM-equipped 18,000-ton capacity Subicdock is spreading all over the shipping community, said James Edge, director of the Asian Navigation Ltd., which is a customer of Subicdock.<br /><br />“The shipyard has been working the whole hours to ensure that the deadlines are met, and the jobs have been delivered on time. So, instead of going somewhere else, vessels now go to Subic for repairs,” said Edge.<br /><br />Subicdock president Catalino Bondoc, who, Malayan Towage and Salvage Corp. (MTSC) chief executive officer, brought the AFDM-5 to Subic last June, said the floating drydock is proving to be a precious piece of floating structural machinery despite the passing years.<br /><br />Brought to Guam in 1992 when the US naval base in Subic Bay closed, the AFDM-5 was used for the repair of small- and medium-sized vessels of the US Marine’s Military Sealift Command, as well as commercial ships.<br /><br />Thereafter, it was sold to Cabras Marine Corporation, a private company rendering ship repair services in Guam and Micronesia.<br /><br />In 1999, the AFDM-5 was awarded to Bondoc’s Malayan Towage, the largest towage and salvage company in the Philippines, reportedly in the amount of P165 million.<br /><br />It was then brought to Manila and equipped with additional equipment, including a 100-ton capacity floating crane.<br /><br />In June 2007, to the delight of the more than 50 former Subic drydock workers, AFDM-5 arrived at Bravo Pier to regain its title as the star of Subic’s maritime industry.<br /><br />Bondoc revealed that after the AFDM-5 was installed at Subic, Japanese and Indonesian businessmen have approached him on several occasions to express their interest to buy the drydock for US million, but he turned down the offers.<br /><br />“We know that ship repair is a viable operation here in Subic, and there are lots of services we can do for the shipping industry in this area. That is a lot better than what we can do with the million dollars,” Bondoc said.<br /><br />Today, Bondoc said the Subic drydock is now competing with US ship repair facilities, like that of Guam which has a bigger drydock.<br /><br />“We started with the Bravo Pier which was already in a deteriorating condition. But now, it is superbly capable of doing everything, as we have already restored every part of the area, including the catwalk,” he said.<br /><br />Bondoc added that because the company is located in a free port zone, they could bring in machineries and materials tax free.<br /><br />“So we have that edge. It’s very cost effective for us and the customers, so we really in for a long term here,” he said. “It took us a lot of money to bring the drydock in here, but we are happy because it is now clear in our mind what we are planning to do with this facility,” he added.<br /><br />Bondoc also said that while the company is gearing to provide ship repair services, it is also considering a long term plan for boat assembly with European businessmen who design and build all types of watercraft.<br /><br />“Depending on our capabilities here, we could have a technical tie-up wherein they could bring parts for, say, a tugboat and we will assemble them. Our prospective partners could also use Subic as a base to sell or export tugboats,” he said.<br /><br />As a free port, Subic would provide advantage for the planned joint venture, Bondoc said, because of the business incentives and the skilled labor, which is also cheaper compared to those in neighboring countries. (PNA)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717784602110510748.post-10688411316250703222011-08-01T07:48:00.000-07:002011-08-01T07:49:07.924-07:00SubicDock acquires new drydock facility<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px; "><p class="NoParagraphStyle">Subic Drydock Corp. (SubicDock), a company providing ship repair and new building services in this free port, is now ready to take on more customers following its acquisition of another drydocking facility.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="NoParagraphStyle">SubicDock president Catalino Bondoc, said the firm acquired recently the AFDL-21, a small auxiliary floating dry dock, and has installed it at <st1:place><a href="http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleid=53025#" class="kLink" id="KonaLink1" style="text-decoration: underline !important; color: blue !important; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; 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border-top-style: none !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-color: initial !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: initial; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; color: blue !important; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; width: auto !important; float: none !important; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Subic</span></span></a></st1:place>’s Bravo Pier alongside the AFDM-5, a medium auxiliary floating dry dock, that the firm brought here last year.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="NoParagraphStyle">The SFDL-21, which has a length of 200 feet and a beam of 64 feet, has a lifting capacity of 1,000 tons, while the bigger AFDM-5, which has an overall length of 622 feet and an extreme beam of 124 feet, can lift vessels up to 18,000 tons.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="NoParagraphStyle">“With these two dry docks, we are now able to serve a wider range of vessels and aim to be one of the leaders in the Philippine ship repair industry,” Bondoc said during a familiarization tour for shipping agents and prospective clients.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="NoParagraphStyle">“Our company vision,” Bondoc added, “is to be a world-class provider of ship repair, overhauling, installation, fabrication, and port general services.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="NoParagraphStyle">SubicDock brought the AFDM-5 to its former home in <st1:place>Subic</st1:place> last year after it served at the Guam Shipyard since 1992, when the US Navy towed the dry dock to <st1:place>Guam</st1:place> as it pulled out from the former Subic Naval Base.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="NoParagraphStyle">The AFDL-21, meanwhile, was transferred to the <a href="http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleid=53025#" class="kLink" id="KonaLink2" style="text-decoration: underline !important; color: blue !important; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-left-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; text-transform: none !important; display: inline !important; font-variant: normal; top: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; position: static; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><span style="color: blue !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static; "><span class="kLink" style="border-top-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-color: initial !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: initial; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; color: blue !important; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; width: auto !important; float: none !important; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Philippine </span><span class="kLink" style="border-top-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-color: initial !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: initial; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; color: blue !important; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; width: auto !important; float: none !important; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Navy</span></span></a> in 1961, but was sold to Malayan Towage and Salvage Corp. in March 1990.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="NoParagraphStyle">Since its operation here in October last year, SubicDock has been attracting a growing list of customers, including vessels owned by the US Navy, the North Korean fishing fleet, and Austel Shipping, an Australian firm operating high speed ferries.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="NoParagraphStyle">The firm had since received a 2001 certification of compliance from the RINA Society (Registro Italiano Novale) of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Italy</st1:place></st1:country-region>, Bondoc added.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="NoParagraphStyle"><a href="http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleid=53025#" class="kLink" id="KonaLink3" style="text-decoration: underline !important; color: blue !important; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-left-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; text-transform: none !important; display: inline !important; font-variant: normal; top: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; position: static; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><span style="color: blue !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static; "><span class="kLink" style="border-top-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-color: initial !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: blue; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; color: blue !important; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; width: auto !important; float: none !important; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Subic </span><span class="kLink" style="border-top-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-color: initial !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: blue; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; color: blue !important; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; width: auto !important; float: none !important; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Bay </span><span class="kLink" style="border-top-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-color: initial !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: blue; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; color: blue !important; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; width: auto !important; float: none !important; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Metropolitan </span><span class="kLink" style="border-top-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-color: initial !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: blue; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; color: blue !important; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; width: auto !important; float: none !important; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Authority</span></span></a> (SBMA) chairman Feliciano Salonga, who attended the recent briefing, said SubicDock’s ship repair facilities boost <st1:place>Subic</st1:place>’s bid to become a major international maritime center.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="NoParagraphStyle">“We’ve got it all here,” <a href="http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleid=53025#" class="kLink" id="KonaLink4" style="text-decoration: underline !important; color: blue !important; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-top-color: transparent !important; border-right-color: transparent !important; border-bottom-color: transparent !important; border-left-color: transparent !important; background-image: none !important; background-attachment: initial !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-color: transparent !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; text-transform: none !important; display: inline !important; font-variant: normal; top: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; position: static; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important; "><span style="color: blue !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static; "><span class="kLink" style="border-top-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-color: initial !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: initial; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; color: blue !important; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; width: auto !important; float: none !important; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: static; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Salonga</span></span></a> said. “<st1:place>Subic</st1:place> has a deep, natural harbor for ships, tax-free environment for business, and skilled but comparatively cheap manpower.”<o:p></o:p></p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px; "><p class="NoParagraphStyle">Bondoc said SubicDock is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cabras Marine Corp., a US-based maritime services organization with over 30 years experience in providing tugboat, salvage, pilotage and waterfront services for the US Navy and commercial ocean-going vessels in Guam and Micronesia. </p><p class="NoParagraphStyle"><br /></p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px; "><a id="ctl00_cph1_Article1_FormView1_LabelAuthorName" title="Displays articles written by this author" href="http://www.philstar.com/ArticleListByAuthorName.aspx?AuthorName=By+Ric+Sapnu" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 66, 118); font-weight: normal; ">By Ric Sapnu</a> <span id="ctl00_cph1_Article1_FormView1_LabelChannelPublishDateTime" style="color: gray; font-weight: normal; ">(The Philippine Star) Updated March 31, 2008</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717784602110510748.post-49170583399267332152011-08-01T07:38:00.000-07:002011-08-01T07:44:43.927-07:00Machinist (AFDB-8)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><u><b><i><span >AFDB-8 Class Large Auxiliary Floating Dry Dock </span></i></b>:</u></span><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Built, in 1980, by Seebeck, Shipbuilding GmbH, Bremerhaven, Germany</li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Delivered and placed in service in June 1980 as <b>Machinist (AFDB-8)</b></li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Allocated to Naval Base Subic Bay, Philippines</li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Placed out of service, circa 1992</li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Struck from the Naval Register, 23 April 1997</li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Sold, 23 April 1997, for commercial service to Guam Industrial Services Shipyard</li><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><br /></li><span class="Apple-style-span" ><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><u><b><i><span >Specifications</span></i></b>:</u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span ><br /><b><i>Displacement</i></b> unknown<br /><b><i>Length</i></b> 825'<br /><b><i>Beam</i></b> 175'<br /><b><i>Draft</i></b> unknown<br /><b><i>Complement</i></b> unknown<br /><b><i>Armament</i></b> none</span></span><hr style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><center style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><table border="5" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="d3d3d3"><tbody><tr><th>Click On Image<br />For Full Size Image</th><th>Size</th><th colspan="2">Image Description</th><th>Contributed<br />By</th></tr><tr><td align="center"><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/28/09280903.jpg"><img border="3" src="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/28/tn/09280903.gif" alt="Machinist" a="" /></a></td><td align="center">127k</td><td colspan="2"><span ><b><i>Machinist</i> (AFDB-8)</b> at Naval Station Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippines, date unknown.</span></td><td><span >Bob Gregory YA-03<br />WESTPAC Maintenance PMgr.<br />Berthing & Messing PMgr.<br />COMPACFLT N433</span></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/28/09280901.jpg"><img border="3" src="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/28/tn/09280901.gif" alt="Machinist" a="" /></a></td><td align="center">62k</td><td colspan="2"><span ><b><i>Machinist</i> (AFDB-8)</b> and <a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/31/3103.htm"><b>USS <i>Brunswick</i> (ATS-3)</b></a> at Naval Station Subic Bay, Luzon, Philippines, 3 April 1992. <b><i>Brunswick</i></b> towed <b><i>Machinist</i></b> from Subic Bay to Pearl Harbor during the US military withdrawal from Subic Bay.<br /><i>DOD photo # DNST9207048</i> by Roger Dutcher, JO2 USN.</span></td><td><span >Defense Imagery.mil</span></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/28/09280902.jpg"><img border="3" src="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/28/tn/09280902.gif" alt="Machinist" a="" /></a></td><td align="center">69k</td><td colspan="2"><span >Aerial view of ex-<b><i>Machinist</i> (AFDB-8)</b> in commercial service for Guam Ship Yard, Apra Harbor Guam, circa 2008.</span></td><td><span >Bob Gregory</span></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/28/09280904.jpg"><img border="3" src="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/28/tn/09280904.gif" alt="Machinist" a="" /></a></td><td align="center">45k</td><td rowspan="2" colspan="2"><span >Ex-<b><i>Machinist</i> (AFDB-8)</b> sunk at Guam Ship Yard, Apra Harbor Guam, January 2011.</span></td><td rowspan="2"><span > </span></td></tr><tr><td align="center"><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/28/09280905.jpg"><img border="3" src="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/28/tn/09280905.gif" alt="Machinist" a="" /></a></td><td align="center">10</td></tr></tbody></table></center><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span><li style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><br /></li>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717784602110510748.post-73491018461942909172011-08-01T06:00:00.000-07:002011-08-01T07:15:25.949-07:00USS Artisan (ABSD-1) AFDB 1<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Artisan_(AFDB-1)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Artisan_(AFDB-1)</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; "><b>USS <i>Artisan</i> (ABSD-1)</b>, a ten-section, non-self-propelled, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Large_auxiliary_floating_drydock&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Large auxiliary floating drydock (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(186, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">large auxiliary floating drydock</a>, was the only ship of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">United States Navy</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artisan" title="Artisan" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">given this name</a>. She was constructed in sections during 1942 and 1943 by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Everett_Shipbuilding_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Everett Shipbuilding Company (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(186, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Everett Shipbuilding Company</a>, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett,_Washington" title="Everett, Washington" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Everett, Washington</a>; the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Bridge_%26_Iron_Company" title="Chicago Bridge & Iron Company" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Chicago Bridge & Iron Company</a>, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka,_California" title="Eureka, California" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Eureka, California</a>; the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pollack-Stockton_Shipbuilding_Company&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pollack-Stockton Shipbuilding Company (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(186, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Pollack-Stockton Shipbuilding Company</a>, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockton,_California" title="Stockton, California" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Stockton, California</a>; and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Bridge_%26_Iron_Company" title="Chicago Bridge & Iron Company" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Chicago Bridge & Iron Company</a>, in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_City,_Louisiana" title="Morgan City, Louisiana" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Morgan City, Louisiana</a>. Her official commissioning ceremony took place at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett,_Washington" title="Everett, Washington" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Everett, Washington</a>, on 10 May 1943, Captain Andrew R. Mack in command.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USS_Artisan_ABSD-1_01.jpg" class="image" title="USS Artisan (ABSD-1) with Antelope (IX-109) and LST-120 in the dock at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides Islands, 8 January 1945" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="USS Artisan (ABSD-1) with Antelope (IX-109) and LST-120 in the dock at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides Islands, 8 January 1945" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/USS_Artisan_ABSD-1_01.jpg/300px-USS_Artisan_ABSD-1_01.jpg" width="300" height="238" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: middle; " /></a><br /><br />USS <i>Artisan</i> (ABSD-1) with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_Antelope_(IX-109)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="USS Antelope (IX-109) (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(186, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><i>Antelope</i> (IX-109)</a> and LST-120 in the dock at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espiritu_Santo" title="Espiritu Santo" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Espiritu Santo</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hebrides_Islands" title="New Hebrides Islands" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">New Hebrides Islands</a>, 8 January </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; "><table class="infobox" style="font-size: 12px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-right-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); color: black; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 1em; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-right: 0.2em; padding-bottom: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.2em; clear: right; text-align: left; line-height: 1.5em; width: 315px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><tbody><tr><th height="30" style="vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(176, 196, 222); text-align: center; ">Career (US)</th><th style="vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(176, 196, 222); text-align: center; "><span class="flagicon"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/67px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" width="67" height="35" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: middle; " /></span></th></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="vertical-align: top; ">Laid down:</td><td style="vertical-align: top; ">1942 and 1943</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="vertical-align: top; ">Commissioned:</td><td style="vertical-align: top; ">10 May 1943</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="vertical-align: top; ">Decommissioned:</td><td style="vertical-align: top; ">1 March 1987</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="vertical-align: top; ">Struck:</td><td style="vertical-align: top; ">1 March 1987</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="vertical-align: top; ">Reinstated:</td><td style="vertical-align: top; ">March 1987</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="vertical-align: top; ">Honors and<br />awards:</td><td style="vertical-align: top; "><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><span style="font-size: 10px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:American_Campaign_Medal_ribbon.svg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="American Campaign Medal ribbon.svg" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/American_Campaign_Medal_ribbon.svg/40px-American_Campaign_Medal_ribbon.svg.png" width="40" height="11" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: middle; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Campaign_Medal" title="American Campaign Medal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">American Campaign Medal</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Asiatic-Pacific_Campaign_ribbon.svg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="Asiatic-Pacific Campaign ribbon.svg" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Asiatic-Pacific_Campaign_ribbon.svg/40px-Asiatic-Pacific_Campaign_ribbon.svg.png" width="40" height="11" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: middle; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiatic-Pacific_Campaign_Medal" title="Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_War_II_Victory_Medal_ribbon.svg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="World War II Victory Medal ribbon.svg" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/World_War_II_Victory_Medal_ribbon.svg/40px-World_War_II_Victory_Medal_ribbon.svg.png" width="40" height="11" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: middle; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_Victory_Medal_(United_States)" title="World War II Victory Medal (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">World War II Victory Medal</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:National_Defense_Service_Medal_ribbon.svg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="National Defense Service Medal ribbon.svg" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/National_Defense_Service_Medal_ribbon.svg/40px-National_Defense_Service_Medal_ribbon.svg.png" width="40" height="11" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: middle; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; " /></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Service_Medal" title="National Defense Service Medal" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">National Defense Service Medal</a></span></p></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="vertical-align: top; ">Fate:</td><td style="vertical-align: top; ">Sections <b>A</b>,<b>G</b>,<b>H</b>,<b>I</b> sold for scrapping 1 March 1987<br />Section <b>B</b> and <b>E</b> laid up at NISMF, Pearl Harbor, 1 March 1987<br />Section <b>F</b> disposed of as a target, 1 March 1987<br />Section <b>C</b> redesignated <b>IX-525</b>, 2 March 1998, status, active in service<br />Section <b>D</b> redesignated <b>IX-521</b>, 16 August 1996, status, active in service at NISMF Pearl Harbor, HI.</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" height="30" style="vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(176, 196, 222); text-align: center; ">General characteristics</th></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="vertical-align: top; ">Displacement:</td><td style="vertical-align: top; ">38,500 (in ten sections)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="vertical-align: top; ">Length:</td><td style="vertical-align: top; ">927 ft (283 m) (in ten sections)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="vertical-align: top; ">Beam:</td><td style="vertical-align: top; ">256 ft 0 in (78.03 m)</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="vertical-align: top; ">Draught:</td><td style="vertical-align: top; ">9 ft (2.7 m) floated, 78 ft (24 m) flooded</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="vertical-align: top; ">Speed:</td><td style="vertical-align: top; ">not self-propelled</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="vertical-align: top; ">Capacity:</td><td style="vertical-align: top; ">90,000 tons lift</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="vertical-align: top; ">Complement:</td><td style="vertical-align: top; ">690 officers and men</td></tr><tr valign="top"><td style="vertical-align: top; ">Armament:</td><td style="vertical-align: top; ">none</td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; "><h2 style="color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="mw-headline" id="War_service">War service</span></h2><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">The floating drydock made the voyage to the southwestern Pacific in two separate convoys. The two sections constructed on the Gulf Coast departed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_City,_Louisiana" title="Morgan City, Louisiana" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Morgan City, Louisiana</a>, on 14 July 1943, while the remaining eight sections concentrated at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco,_California" title="San Francisco, California" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">San Francisco, California</a>, before putting to sea on 28 August 1943. The first two sections arrived at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espiritu_Santo" title="Espiritu Santo" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Espiritu Santo</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hebrides" title="New Hebrides" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">New Hebrides</a> on 24 September, and the West Coast sections reached that destination on 2 October. Later that month, the drydock's crew began assembly procedures. On 2 November in the course of assembling the drydock, one of its sections sank, drowning 13 of her crew. By the end of 1943, she was a working drydock of eight sections repairing a variety of Navy ships at Espiritu Santo. In April 1944, ABSD-1 became a full ten-section drydock when her remaining section was combined with another from ABSD-2 and was joined to the eight already functioning. With all ten sections joined, she was 927 feet long, 28 feet tall (keel to welldeck), and with an inside clear width of 133 feet 7 inches.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">She served in the New Hebrides until mid-April 1945 at which time she received orders to disassemble and move forward to the big base at<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyte_Gulf" title="Leyte Gulf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Leyte Gulf</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Philippines</a>. ABSD-1 completed disassembly by the beginning of June and, on 30 June, the first six sections began the voyage, via <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayapura" title="Jayapura" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Hollandia</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea" title="New Guinea" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">New Guinea</a>, to Leyte. The remaining four sections took departure on 7 July. The first echelon arrived at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manicani_Bay&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Manicani Bay (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(186, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Manicani Bay</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samar_Island" title="Samar Island" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Samar Island</a>, on 27 July, and assembly began three days later. On 2 August, the rest of the drydock entered Manicani Bay and, by mid-September, all ten sections had been joined together. The floating drydock resumed her repair work soon thereafter, and it continued through February 1946. On 28 February 1946, she undocked four yard craft and began preparations for inactivation. ABSD-1 was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_decommissioning" title="Ship decommissioning" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">decommissioned</a> on 31 May 1946.</p><h2 style="color: black; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.6em; margin-left: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); width: auto; font-size: 19px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="editsection" style="float: right; margin-left: 5px; font-size: 13px; ">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_Artisan_(AFDB-1)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Post-war service" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">edit</a>]</span><span class="mw-headline" id="Post-war_service">Post-war service</span></h2><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">She remained in the Philippines through the summer and fall of 1946. During that time, in August 1946, the advanced base sectional dock was reclassified a large auxiliary floating drydock and was redesignated <b>AFDB-1</b>. Sometime after November 1946, her sections were towed from the Philippines to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor" title="Pearl Harbor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Pearl Harbor</a> where they were placed in reserve. Her inactivity lasted almost exactly five years. She was recommissioned at Pearl Harbor on 2 June 1951, Captain O. J. Stien, USNR, in command. Later that month, she was towed, in sections, to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guam" title="Guam" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Guam</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Islands" title="Mariana Islands" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Mariana Islands</a> where the Navy was improving another repair facility in fairly close proximity to the combat zone in the year-old <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Korean War</a>. Reporting for duty on 26 June 1951, she was not completely assembled and ready for duty until the beginning of March 1952.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">Active at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apra_Harbor" title="Apra Harbor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Apra Harbor</a> not quite three years, <b>AFBD-1</b> was out of commission again and back in reserve by January 1955. She remained inactive at Guam for a little more than 15 years. In 1970, five of her sections were moved to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subic_Bay" title="Subic Bay" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Subic Bay</a> in the Philippines where the floating drydock was placed in service once again on 17 November 1970. Her third period of active service proved to be her longest lasting almost 16 years. On 7 June 1979, she was named <i>Artisan</i>. In October 1986, <i>Artisan</i> was placed out of service, and her name was struck from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Vessel_Register" title="Naval Vessel Register" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Naval Vessel Register</a>. In March 1987, however, <i>Artisan</i>received a reprieve when her name was reinstated on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Vessel_Register" title="Naval Vessel Register" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Naval Vessel Register</a>.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">On 16 August 1996 her Section 1D was reclassified as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unclassified_miscellaneous_vessel" title="Unclassified miscellaneous vessel" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">unclassified miscellaneous vessel</a> <b>IX-521</b>, and on 2 March 1998 her Section 1C was reclassified to <b>IX-525</b>.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; "><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: square; margin-top: 0.3em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; list-style-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANCAYAAABhPKSIAAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAACtJREFUeF7NjbEJAAAIw7zRu/w5ouBUBEeHDM2QGiA8kObBULuFcJbSXN8T78SqnpKltAIAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); "><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a12/artisan.htm" class="external text" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">history.navy.mil: USS <i>Artisan</i></a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; "><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/2801.htm" class="external text" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 102, 187); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAFZJREFUeF59z4EJADEIQ1F36k7u5E7ZKXeUQPACJ3wK7UNokVxVk9kHnQH7bY9hbDyDhNXgjpRLqFlo4M2GgfyJHhjq8V4agfrgPQX3JtJQGbofmCHgA/nAKks+JAjFAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">navsource.org: <i>Artisan</i> AFDB-1, ABSD-1, IX-521 / IX-525</a></li></ul></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; 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display: block; zoom: 1; "><li class="gallerybox" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; border-right-width: 2px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 2px; border-top-color: white; border-right-color: white; border-bottom-color: white; border-left-color: white; display: inline-block; zoom: 1; width: 155px; "><div style="width: 155px; "><div class="thumb" style="margin-bottom: 2px; width: 150px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-align: center; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-top: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-left: 2px; height: 150px; "><div style="margin-top: 28px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 28px; margin-left: auto; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USS_Artisan_ABSD-1_02.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/USS_Artisan_ABSD-1_02.jpg/120px-USS_Artisan_ABSD-1_02.jpg" width="120" height="94" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: middle; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " /></a></div></div><div class="gallerytext" style="overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-size: 12px; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 4px; word-wrap: break-word; "><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Columbia_(CL-56)" title="USS Columbia (CL-56)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><i>Columbia</i> (CL-56)</a> docked in <i>Artisan</i> ABSD-1</p></div></div></li> <li class="gallerybox" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; border-right-width: 2px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 2px; border-top-color: white; border-right-color: white; border-bottom-color: white; border-left-color: white; display: inline-block; zoom: 1; width: 155px; "><div style="width: 155px; "><div class="thumb" style="margin-bottom: 2px; width: 150px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-align: center; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-top: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-left: 2px; height: 150px; "><div style="margin-top: 28.5px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 28.5px; margin-left: auto; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USS_Artisan_ABSD-1_03.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/USS_Artisan_ABSD-1_03.jpg/120px-USS_Artisan_ABSD-1_03.jpg" width="120" height="93" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: middle; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " /></a></div></div><div class="gallerytext" style="overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-size: 12px; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 4px; word-wrap: break-word; "><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><i>Columbia</i> docked upon<i>Artisan</i></p></div></div></li> <li class="gallerybox" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-width: 2px; border-right-width: 2px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 2px; border-top-color: white; border-right-color: white; border-bottom-color: white; border-left-color: white; display: inline-block; zoom: 1; width: 155px; "><div style="width: 155px; "><div class="thumb" style="margin-bottom: 2px; width: 150px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); text-align: center; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-top: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-left: 2px; height: 150px; "><div style="margin-top: 28px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 28px; margin-left: auto; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USS_Artisan_ABSD-1_04.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/USS_Artisan_ABSD-1_04.jpg/120px-USS_Artisan_ABSD-1_04.jpg" width="120" height="94" style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: middle; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; " /></a></div></div><div class="gallerytext" style="overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-size: 12px; padding-top: 2px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 4px; word-wrap: break-word; "><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; ">AFDB-1 with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_West_Virginia_(BB-48)" title="USS West Virginia (BB-48)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><i>West Virginia</i>(BB-48)</a> high and dry in the dock</p></div></div></li></ul></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; "><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p><p style="margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; "><br /></p></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: sans-serif; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; "><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717784602110510748.post-18370004408955214842011-08-01T05:18:00.000-07:002011-08-01T06:00:29.172-07:00HISTORY OF U.S.S AFDB-1<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-20mutWAXNC8/Tjaaq1intKI/AAAAAAAACSs/_8cSX_9ABGY/s1600/afdb-1-1956.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 255px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-20mutWAXNC8/Tjaaq1intKI/AAAAAAAACSs/_8cSX_9ABGY/s400/afdb-1-1956.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635862044418225314" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span"><u style="font-family: Geneva, Arial; font-size: medium; "><span ><p align="CENTER">HISTORY OF U.S.S AFDB-1</p></span></u><p style="font-family: Geneva, Arial; font-size: medium; "> </p><span style="font-family: Geneva, Arial; font-size: medium; "><p>The U.S.S. AFDB-.1 (formerly ABSD-1) is the first of its class of advance base sectional drydocks, built by the Bureau of Yards and Docks to dock the largest combat ships now afloat and, with modifications, those larger aircraft carriers now in construction. Following the requirements set forth by the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Frederic R. Harris, Inc., the designing engineers, developed designs which permitted rapid construction, imperative under war conditions. A number of companies contracted for the construction of these drydock sections, the completed USS AFDB-1 having been built in five different shipyards in the United States, ranging from Morgan City, Louisiana, to Everett, Washington. These were the Everett Pacific Company, Everett, Washington (two sections), Pollock Stockton Shipbuilding Company, Stockton, California, (three sections), Chicago Bridge and Iron Company, Eureka, California, (one section), Pacific Bridge Company, Alameda, California, (two sections), and Chicago Bridge and Iron Company, Morgan City, Louisiana, (two sections).</p></span><span style="font-family: Geneva, Arial; font-size: medium; "><p>Each dock section, called an AFD is composed of a compartmentalized pontoon upon which are mounted two folding wingwalls. The section, which has its dependent power plant of two diesel driven generators, pumping plants, evaporators, messing and berthing quarters, carries a crew of about fifty men. While in sailing position, the wingwalls are folded into horizontal position, thus reducing wind resistance and enabling the section to be towed more<u> </u>readily. Extended sea voyages can be successfully undertaken in the sailing position, which necessitates the temporary installation of pilot house, life rafts, visual and radio communications, mooring tackle, and other seagoing gear.</p></span><span style="font-family: Geneva, Arial; font-size: medium; "><p>The AFD-7 was the first section completed. Following the successful submergence and wingwall raising tests by flotation method held on this section in Everett, Washington, a combined Christening and Commissioning</p></span><p align="CENTER" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial; font-size: medium; ">-<span >1-</span></p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">Advance Base Section Dock</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial; font-size: medium; "><span ><p>Ceremony took place on 10 May 1943. Mrs. Andrew R. Mack, wife of the first Commanding Officer, sponsored the USS ABSD-1. In accordance with instructions from the Chief of Naval Operations, Captain Andrew R. Mack placed the ship in commission and assumed command of all sections comprising the USS AFDB-1 (then ABSD-1 - Advance Base Section Dock)</p></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial; font-size: medium; "><span ><p>By being made readily available to battle damaged ships relatively close to the scene of action, the AFDB type drydock furnished a new service to the capital ships of the United States Fleet during the last war. As a matter of recent history, the USS AFDB-1 was reactivated at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard during the first half of 1951 and was commissioned on 2 June 1951.</p></span><span ><p>Following the outbreak of the Korean action, it was decided that the time was propitious for the reactivation of a large drydock. Accordingly, it was determined to place the USS AFDB-1 into commission, and reactivation work was commenced at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in January 1951. On 2 June, the USS AFDB-1. was recommissioned at Pearl Harbor and on 4 June the first two sections in company with two auxiliary craft departed Pearl under tow for Guam, Mariana Islands. From the initial tow date until 12 October 1951, when Sections GEORGE and HOW, the final two sections arrived at Apra Harbor, ten sections and six companion craft were dispatched in several group tows to the assembly location. One week after the arrival of the first two sections, the operation of raising the wingwalls on Section ABLE was commenced and early in September the marriage of the first two units and assembly of the drydock itself got underway. The ten sections of the drydock were completely assembled in January 1952. A series of submergence tests were conducted following assembly for shakedown of the crew, structure and machinery. On 5 April 1952 during a one day final lift test the USS AFDB-1 drydocked the USS WISCONSIN (BB64). On 1 September 1952, in view of" the prevailing world situation. the USS AFDB-1, though still remaining in commission, was placed in an "Active in Reduced Service" status.</p></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial; font-size: medium; ">Two methods for raising and lowering the 400 ton. wingwalls have been successfully used; the flotation method, by which the flooding and pumping of pontoon wingwalls at a predetermined depth and angle enables them to be raised or lowered, and the jacking method, by which two ten ton columns and hydraulic jacks raise and lower them.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial; font-size: medium; "><span ><p>After the assembly of two or more sections has been achieved and the moorings laid, the transfer of a 250 ton Gantry Crane to each wingwall is made. With pintles and gudgeons, wedges, and welded splice plates joining the sections and making them one unit, other features are added, namely a sloping ladder and elevator on the outboard sides of the wingwalls at either end of the dock; flying bridges at both ends to make a continuous platform around the dock at wingwall height; a fifty foot outrigger at each end on the pontoon deck to extend the working space of the dock another 100 feet; installation of shops, offices, living spaces, and recreation facilities inside the wingwalls on the safety deck.</p></span><span ><p>The USS AFDB-1 is capable of docking the largest ship afloat, and by that token is itself the largest afloat. At the same time., as a mobile unit, the dock may be moved by sections through the Panama Canal from one advanced base to another. It, is also self-docking. Two or more assembled sections may dock a third section.</p></span><span ><p>As each section is in itself a complete unit with identical compartmentation, the Navy Standard Divisional designations in regards to numbering and lettering of spaces are not used. All spaces such as buoyancy chambers, ballast tanks, passageways, etc., are prefixed with the letter designating the section of the assembled dock. Starboard spaces are numbered with odd numbers, and port spaces with even numbers.</p></span><p align="CENTER">-<span >3-</span></p><span ></span><b><u><span ><p align="CENTER">GENERAL INF0RMATION</p></span></u></b><span ><p>Overall length of dock: 927 feet (including fifty foot outrigger at each end).</p><p>Length of each pontoon (width of the' assembled dock), 256 feet</p><p>Height of wingwalls: 56 feet above the dock basin.</p><p>Width of wingwalls: 20 feet</p><p>Width of each pontoon: 80 feet</p><p>Depth of pontoon: 28 feet</p><p>Distance between wingwalls: 140 feet.</p><p>Moorings: 40 fifteen ton anchors with about 150 fathoms of 3" chain on each anchor</p><p>Armament: None installed at present .</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></span></span><center style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span >WELCOME ABOARD<p></p><p>ARMED FORCES DAY</p><p></p><p>MAY 19, 1956</p></span></center><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "> </p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span ><p>On this 1956 Armed Forces Day Observance, it is hoped that your visit aboard the U.S.S. AFDB-1, Guam, Mariana Islands, will be an interesting and educational success in the Navy's aim to bring you in closer contact with your Navy. It is the mission of the officers and men of this vessel to explain to you anything you may have doubts about.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/28/2801a.htm">http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/28/2801a.htm</a></p></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717784602110510748.post-30069574609218952902011-08-01T05:03:00.000-07:002011-08-01T05:16:48.599-07:001859 dry dock design<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ofiJG_GauSE/TjaY_Pv6wJI/AAAAAAAACSk/4VMMaiPMQFk/s1600/1859drydock-design.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 151px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ofiJG_GauSE/TjaY_Pv6wJI/AAAAAAAACSk/4VMMaiPMQFk/s320/1859drydock-design.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635860196027449490" /></a><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">In the illustration above I give you “Nystrom’s Hydraulic Pontoon Dock” as it appeared on page 1 of<i><a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/title/lists/scia_VsciaI1.html">Scientific American</a></i>, vol. 1, num. 1, of July 2, 1859. Mr. J. W. Nystrom’s concept was to place several barges each equipped with ballast tanks and side towers side-by-side to form a dry-dock structure. In a second figure on the same page (shown below to the left) a side on view of several barges lifting a ship is shown. It was a unique and clever idea but no one seemed interested. The usual way to build a floating dry-dock is as a single structure not one of multiple barges arranged side-by-side. Below on the right is a photograph of the U.S. Navy floating dry-dock AFDM-6 (with an unidentified attack submarine inside) that show the normal construction of such structures. This dock was built in 1943 and is of the largest currently in use. It can lift a vessel of 8,000 tons displacement.</span></div><div><br /></div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OAfvHfJH3Xw/TjaY0eyD8wI/AAAAAAAACSc/4Ac30F9g1bw/s1600/dock2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 274px; height: 192px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OAfvHfJH3Xw/TjaY0eyD8wI/AAAAAAAACSc/4Ac30F9g1bw/s320/dock2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635860011084411650" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A7qh-uuqhoc/TjaYv9tCP1I/AAAAAAAACSU/dPGirLGSlos/s1600/AFDM.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 161px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-A7qh-uuqhoc/TjaYv9tCP1I/AAAAAAAACSU/dPGirLGSlos/s320/AFDM.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635859933485481810" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;">However, in 1943 the U.S. Navy needed to build a floating dry-dock large enough for battleships and aircraft carriers, displacing 60,000 and 48,000 tons respectively. Using Mr. Nystrom’s multiple pontoon configuration the AFDB-1 was constructed. This dock, shown at the right, had 10 pontoon sections. Using all 10 sections it could lift 90,000 tons.</div><br />One curious fact about AFDB-1 is that during the war with Japan its existence was classified as top secret. This put it on a par with the atomic bomb as one of the most vital pieces of information to be kept from the enemy. Mundane as it may seem the ability to dry-dock capital ships near the front was a key component to the mobile basing concept needed to project power across the vast distances of the Pacific Ocean.<br /><br />But what does any of this have to do with the content of Clio Wired? Just this, Nystrom's dock, like Da Vinci's helicopter, was concieved many years before the technology was available to realize it. In the this course we have read speculations on what form new media might give history in the future. Some in the class dismissed these speculations on the grounds that the technology isn't available now to realize them and most likely won't be available in the near future. So what. At some point in time the technology will be there and historians and others whose task it will be to apply the new technology will at least have sketch of what it is they're supposed to do.<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OTQKGIPkItU/TjaWiG8U9hI/AAAAAAAACSM/bCWJwnStZ9c/s320/AFDB.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635857496424117778" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 224px; height: 320px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717784602110510748.post-63879107397731200182011-08-01T04:56:00.000-07:002011-08-01T05:01:15.198-07:00big blue 1958 in long beach<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8roIzgP-zrA/TjaVZYgGfFI/AAAAAAAACSE/gvIdgtL__6k/s1600/1958-bigblue-longbeach.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8roIzgP-zrA/TjaVZYgGfFI/AAAAAAAACSE/gvIdgtL__6k/s320/1958-bigblue-longbeach.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635856247007116370" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/naval-warfare/40567-ghost-fleet-3.html">http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/naval-warfare/40567-ghost-fleet-3.html</a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">As for environmentalist concerns, they have justification. When</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><i>Missouri </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">was towed from Bremerton to Pearl Harbor, she was berthed for a week in the fresh water of the Columbia River to kill off Bremerton fouling and not transport it to Hawaii.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">They were perfectly justified in this. When the BB Floating Dry Dock was towed from Subic Bay to Pearl, WESTPAC critters were still sticking to it and started to pollute the Mid Pacific waters of Pearl Harbor.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Strange story about that Dry Dock. It was towed from Guam to Subic Bay back in the late 70's and a Filipino friend of mine was the General Foreman Rigger in charge of erecting the side walls. Prior to the Guam assignment, that same Floating Dry Dock was berthed at Long Beach Naval Station until the 1960's.</span></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717784602110510748.post-78940361125427454862011-08-01T04:54:00.001-07:002011-08-01T04:54:43.278-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(100, 100, 100); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(100, 100, 100); "><h1 class="ArticleIssueNme" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(0, 69, 108); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">RESOLVE Marine Group Refloats Sunken Drydock in Guam Shipyard</h1></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(100, 100, 100); "><img src="http://www.professionalmariner.com/ME2/Images/px.gif" width="1" height="10" /></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(100, 100, 100); "><a href="http://www.professionalmariner.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=news&mod=News&mid=9A02E3B96F2A415ABC72CB5F516B4C10&tier=3&nid=8EEAB90C78B44EF6A1547D3038CF35FE" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.professionalmariner.com/ME2/Images/print_page.gif" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://www.professionalmariner.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=&nm=&type=news&mod=News&mid=9A02E3B96F2A415ABC72CB5F516B4C10&id=8EEAB90C78B44EF6A1547D3038CF35FE&Title=RESOLVE+Marine+Group+Refloats+Sunken+Drydock+in+Guam+Shipyard&tier=4" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.professionalmariner.com/ME2/Images/email_page_articles.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(100, 100, 100); "><img src="http://www.professionalmariner.com/ME2/Images/px.gif" width="1" height="10" /></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(100, 100, 100); ">(3/25/2011)</td></tr><tr><td style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(100, 100, 100); "><strong></strong></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(100, 100, 100); "><img src="http://www.professionalmariner.com/ME2/Images/px.gif" width="1" height="10" /></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(100, 100, 100); "><img src="http://www.professionalmariner.com/Media/News/guam.jpg" border="0" align="left" class="NewsImage" /><div>Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 18, 2011 -- RESOLVE Marine Group has successfully raised and refloated the “Machinist” drydock at Guam Shipyard in Apra Harbor, Guam. The 825 ft drydock sank on January 2, 2011 during a rough weather event. RESOLVE, a marine salvage and emergency response company with extensive worldwide experience -- including prior experience raising drydocks,-- was the successful bidder for the job. RESOLVE began the salvage job on January 31 and successfully refloated the drydock on March 3.</div><div><br /></div><div>RESOLVE’s Salvage Master, Salvage Engineer, and salvage divers first conducted a comprehensive casualty assessment to determine the structural and watertight conditions of the drydock and to ascertain the status of drydock systems. A detailed engineering analysis was undertaken and a Salvage Plan was developed and implemented, involving extensive preparatory work both topside and underwater. Given the deep submergence of the drydock well beyond normal operating limits, great care was taken to minimize hydrostatic pressures on tank boundaries during the refloating, and to keep global hull stresses and stability within allowable limits. The U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy reviewed and approved the complex salvage plan.<br /></div><div> </div><div>Due to the extensive maintenance being performed on the drydock prior to sinking, a large portion of its pumping system was inoperable. To overcome this challenge, RESOLVE mobilized 12 high-capacity electric salvage pumps. Additionally, numerous gauging systems were established to monitor tank pressures and condition throughout the refloat operation. “Large sunken drydocks are notorious for testing your skill and tenacity, and this was no exception,” said RESOLVE Salvage Master Todd Schauer. “We were fortunate to have the support of an outstanding team including our client Guam Shipyard, as well as Heger Drydock and Mako Diving.”</div><div> </div><div>RESOLVE Marine Group is a leading, multi-faceted marine services group specializing in marine salvage, firefighting, OPA90 SMFF emergency response, wreck removal and maritime training worldwide. RESOLVE delivers comprehensive marine services through its three divisions: RESOLVE Salvage & Fire, RESOLVE Marine Services and Resolve Maritime Academy. RESOLVE maintains fully equipped operations bases in the United States, Europe and Asia. To learn more about RESOLVE Marine Group and the full range of services offered, visit<a target="_blank" href="http://www.resolvemarine.com/">www.resolvemarine.com</a> <http: com="">.</http:></div></td></tr></tbody></table></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717784602110510748.post-38953166565998404132011-08-01T04:52:00.000-07:002011-08-01T04:53:58.855-07:00RESOLVE Refloats Sunken Drydock in Guam ShipyardRESOLVE Marine Group has successfully raised and refloated the “Machinist” drydock at Guam Shipyard in Apra Harbor, Guam. The 825 ft drydock sank on January 2, 2011 during a rough weather event. RESOLVE, a marine salvage and emergency response company with extensive worldwide experience -- including prior experience raising drydocks,-- was the successful bidder for the job. RESOLVE began the salvage job on January 31 and successfully refloated the drydock on March 3.<br /><br />RESOLVE’s Salvage Master, Salvage Engineer, and salvage divers first conducted a comprehensive casualty assessment to determine the structural and watertight conditions of the drydock and to ascertain the status of drydock systems. A detailed engineering analysis was undertaken and a Salvage Plan was developed and implemented, involving extensive preparatory work both topside and underwater. Given the deep submergence of the drydock well beyond normal operating limits, great care was taken to minimize hydrostatic pressures on tank boundaries during the refloating, and to keep global hull stresses and stability within allowable limits. The U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy reviewed and approved the complex salvage plan.<br /><br />Due to the extensive maintenance being performed on the drydock prior to sinking, a large portion of its pumping system was inoperable. To overcome this challenge, RESOLVE mobilized 12 high-capacity electric salvage pumps. Additionally, numerous gauging systems were established to monitor tank pressures and condition throughout the refloat operation. “Large sunken drydocks are notorious for testing your skill and tenacity, and this was no exception,” said RESOLVE Salvage Master Todd Schauer. “We were fortunate to have the support of an outstanding team including our client Guam Shipyard, as well as Heger Drydock and Mako Diving.”Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717784602110510748.post-47604100135456966722011-08-01T02:39:00.000-07:002011-08-01T04:52:39.987-07:00<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.angelwind.com/hassayampa/images/hassayampa/hassayampa_1977_subic_bay_drydock.jpg">http://www.angelwind.com/hassayampa/images/hassayampa/hassayampa_1977_subic_bay_drydock.jpg</a></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">When the BB Floating Dry Dock was towed from Subic Bay to Pearl, WESTPAC critters were still sticking to it and started to pollute the Mid Pacific waters of Pearl Harbor.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Strange story about that Dry Dock. It was towed from Guam to Subic Bay back in the late 70's and a Filipino friend of mine was the General Foreman Rigger in charge of erecting the side walls. Prior to the Guam assignment, that same Floating Dry Dock was berthed at Long Beach Naval Station until the 1960's.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/attachments/naval-warfare/8587d1191647824-ghost-fleet-1958-lbnsy-floating-dd.jpg">http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/attachments/naval-warfare/8587d1191647824-ghost-fleet-1958-lbnsy-floating-dd.jpg</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.google.com.ph/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=big+blue+dry+dock+history+afdb+1">http://www.google.com.ph/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=big+blue+dry+dock+history+afdb+1</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><h1 style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 32px; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; ">Recovery Plan for Sunken Drydock in Guam</h1></div><div><a href="http://www.topix.com/forum/military/coast-guard/T38HU1B1FBS4GC353">http://www.topix.com/forum/military/coast-guard/T38HU1B1FBS4GC353</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717784602110510748.post-73234975443459562422008-04-01T08:07:00.000-07:002011-08-01T08:08:20.760-07:00Subic Drydock Corp Ready to Take on More Customers<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">Subic Drydock Corporation (SubicDock), a company providing ship repair and new building services in this free port, is now ready to take on more customers following its acquisition of another drydocking facility.<br /><br />SubicDock president Catalino Bondoc said the firm recently acquired the AFDL-21, a small auxiliary floating dry dock, and has installed it at Subic's Bravo Pier alongside the AFDM-5, a medium auxiliary floating dry dock, that the firm brought here last year.<br /><br />The SFDL-21, which has a length of 200 feet and a beam of 64 feet, has a lifting capacity of 1,000 tons, while the bigger AFDM-5, which has an overall length of 622 feet and an extreme beam of 124 feet, can lift vessels up to 1,000 tons.<br /><br />"With these two dry docks, we are now able to serve a wider range of vessels and aim to be one of the leaders in the Philippine ship repair industry," Bondoc said during a familiarization tour for shipping agents and prospective clients.<br /><br />"Our company vision," Bondoc added, "is to be a world-class provider of ship repair, overhauling, installation, fabrication, and port general services."<br /><br />SubicDock brought the AFDM-5 to its former home in Subic last year after serving at the Guam Shipyard since 1992, when the US Navy towed the dry dock to Guam as it pulled out from the former Subic Naval Base.<br /><br />The AFDL-21, meanwhile, was transferred to the Philippine Navy in 1961, but was sold to Malayan Towage and Salvage Corp. in March 1990. It has been operating here since October last year.<br /><br />SubicDock has been attracting a growing list of customers, including vessels owned by the US Navy, the North Korean fishing fleet, and Austel Shipping, an Australian firm operating high speed ferries.<br /><br />The firm has received a 2001 certification of compliance from the RINA Society (Registro Italiano Novale) of Italy, Bondoc said.<br /><br />Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) Chairman Feliciano Salonga, who attended the recent briefing, said SubicDocks ship repair facilities boost Subics bid to become a major international maritime center.<br /><br />"We've got it all here," Salonga said. "Subic has a deep, natural harbor for ships, tax-free environment for business, and skilled but comparatively cheap manpower."<br /><br />Bondoc said SubicDock is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cabras Marine Corporation, a US-based maritime services organization with over 30 years experience in providing tugboat, salvage, pilot age and waterfront services for the US Navy and commercial ocean-going vessels in Guam and Micronesia.<br /><br />With the company now in the final stages of completing requirements for ISO 9001:2000 certification, Bondoc said that SubicDock's clients could be assured of the firms capabilities in technical and client support services, ship repair, customer assurance, and on-time product delivery.<br /><br />Aside from drydocking facilities, Bondoc said SubicDock also has a 100-ton floating derrick crane and all the necessary shop facilities and equipment for various operations and services.<br /><br />The company also offers comprehensive ship repair, conversion and construction, engineering, mechanical and electrical repair, tugboat and barging services, non-destructive testing, welding, painting and coating services, structural fabrication and lay out, manufacturing and machining, and component refurbishment.<br /><br />SubicDock also undertakes valves-in shop services, shipboard mechanical and component and valve repairs, governor and injector services, internal combustion engine services, hydraulic services, piping system services, heat exchanger and cooler services, air conditioning and refrigeration, insulation, shipwright and woodworking, temporary services, electric and electronic services, crane rigging, transportation, maintenance, testing and certification, diving services, and occupational health, safety and environmental services.<br /><br />(PNA)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717784602110510748.post-11324387222365898792008-03-31T04:38:00.000-07:002008-10-30T04:42:34.663-07:00Subic shipyard acquires new equipment<div align="justify"><a href="http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/03312008/images/ship-pic01.jpg"><img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 412px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 293px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/03312008/images/ship-pic01.jpg" border="0" /></a> <em><span style="color:#3333ff;">A tugboat undergoes repair inside Subic Dock’s Auxiliary Floating Drydock Medium-5 (AFDM-5), one of the company’s two dry-docking facilities in the Subic Bay Freeport. Subic Dock recently acquired an AFDL-21, which is smaller than AFDM-5, enabling it to undertake repair services for smaller vessels</span></em><br /><br /><br />SUBIC BAY FREEPORT—A Subic-based company offering vessel-repair services has acquired another dry-docking facility to better serve its growing list of local and foreign customers.<br /><br />Subic Drydock Corp. (SubicDock) recently purchased a smaller drydock, allowing the company to repair smaller vessels preferred by local shipping operators.<br /><br />Besides owning the Auxiliary Floating Drydock Medium-5 (AFDM-5), which allows it to fix larger vessels preferred by foreign operators, the company recently purchased the AFDL-21 with a lifting capacity of 1,000 tons.<br /><br />The new acquisition will allow SubicDock more business flexibility, boosting its efforts to attain industry leadership in the Philippines’ ship-repair sector, Catalino Bondoc, the company’s president, said.<br /><br />Although the AFDM-5 has enabled SubicDock to compete with ship-repair facilities in the United States, Bondoc said the new acquisition will help the company provide a more comprehensive program of repair and maintenance services, the executive said.<br /><br />Originally owned by the US Navy, the AFDL-21, which has a length of 200 feet and a beam of 64 feet, was transferred to the Philippine Navy in 1961. In March 1990, it was sold to Malayan Towage and Salvage Corp., the same company that brought the AFDM-5 back from Guam in October.<br /><br />SubicDock brought the AFDM-5 to its former home here in Subic after it served at the Guam Shipyard since 1992, when the US Navy towed the dry dock to Guam when it pulled out from the former Subic Naval Base.<br /><br />SubicDock’s P275-million ship- repair venture has been servicing at least three vessels per month ever since it began operations last year.<br /><br />Bondoc said the dry-dock facility has been attracting a growing list of customers, including vessels owned by the US Navy, the North Korean fishing fleet and Austel Shipping, an Australian firm operating high-speed roll-on, roll-off ferries.<br /><br />Since its establishment in Subic last year, SubicDock had received a 2001 certification of compliance from the RINA Society (Registro Italiano Novale) of Italy.<br /><br />The company, he added, is now in the final stages of completing requirements for ISO 9001:2000 certification to assure customers of its world-class capabilities in technical and client-support services, ship repair, customer assurance and on-time product delivery.<br /><br />Besides its dry-docking facilities, SubicDock also owns a 100-ton floating derrick crane and all the necessary shop facilities and equipment for various operations and services.<br /><br />The company also offers comprehensive ship repair, conversion and construction, engineering, mechanical and electrical repair, tugboat and barging services, nondestructive testing, welding, painting and coating services, structural fabrication and layout, manufacturing and machining and component refurbishment.<br /><br />SubicDock also undertakes valves-in shop services, shipboard mechanical and component and valve repairs, governor and injector services, internal-combustion engine services, hydraulic services, piping-system services, heat exchanger and cooler services, air conditioning and refrigeration, insulation, shipwright and woodworking services, electric and electronic services, crane rigging, transportation, maintenance, testing and certification, diving services and occupational health, safety and environmental services.<br /><br />Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority chairman Feliciano Salonga, who attended the recent launch of the AFDL-21, said SubicDock’s ship-repair facilities will boost Subic’s bid to become a major international maritime center. By Henry Empeño Business Mirror<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717784602110510748.post-60418868201344765242007-11-25T05:32:00.000-08:002007-11-25T06:16:08.309-08:00Subic Bay Drydocks - Past and FutureFor centuries, world super powers found Subic Bay's strategic location and deep harbors perfect for the needs of a military base. <br /><br />==== work in progress ----<br /><br /><a href="http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~cacunithistories/Dewey_Drydock.html">http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~cacunithistories/Dewey_Drydock.html</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0