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View of NISMF ships in the Middle Loch, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in 2016. The Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (NISMF) at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, ports logistic support cargo ships and amphibious transport dock ships. The NISMF Pearl Harbor ships are kept afloat and in fair working order, so they can be reactivated for emergency use. Some of ...
A floating dry dock is a type of pontoon for dry docking ships, possessing floodable buoyancy chambers and a U-shaped cross-section. The walls are used to give the dry dock stability when the floor or deck is below the surface of the water. When valves are opened, the chambers fill with water, causing the dry dock to float lower in the water ...
USS Liberty was a Belmont -class technical research ship (electronic spy ship) that was attacked by Israel Defense Forces during the 1967 Six-Day War. She was built and served in World War II as SS Simmons Victory, as a Victory cargo ship. Liberty ships mothballed at Tongue Point, Astoria, Oregon, 1965.
The world's most famous container ship stopped in China for repairs - see how 6 days blocking the Suez Canal destroyed its bow. These photos of the dry-docked Ever Given reveal the damage it ...
Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Coordinates: 39°50′56″N 75°21′05″W. A photo of the " Hammer-head " crane on the cover of the company's newsletter "Our Yard" in 1947. Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company (1917–1989) was a major shipbuilding company in Chester, Pennsylvania on the Delaware River. Its primary product was tankers, but the ...
SS John W. Brown is a Liberty ship, one of two still operational and one of three preserved as museum ships. [6] As a Liberty ship, she operated as a merchant ship of the United States Merchant Marine during World War II and later was a vocational high school training ship in New York City for many years.
Aviation facilities. Two VREP/support helicopters. The Lewis and Clark class of dry cargo ship is a class of 14 underway replenishment vessels operated by the United States Navy 's Military Sealift Command. The ships in the class are named after famous American explorers and pioneers.
USNS Lewis and Clark (T-AKE-1) is an American dry cargo ship, the lead ship of her namesake class. It was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. The contract to build her was awarded to National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) of San Diego, California, on 18 October ...