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What (who) is dry dock - definition
A NARROW BASIN THAT CAN BE SEALED AND PUMPED DRY TO ALLOW WORK ON A VESSEL
Floating dry dock; Dry-dock; Graving dock; Floating drydock; Dry docks; Graving Dock; Outer-port; Dry docking; Graving yard; Graving dry dock; Dry-docking; Drydocking; Dry Dock; Drydocks; Graving docks; Dry docked; Drydock; Resolute (AFDM-10)
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![NASSCO]] 2012](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Littoral combat ship in drydock, San Diego.jpg?width=200 "NASSCO]] 2012")
![Anna Brassey]] in 1883, with its [[floating drydock]] in the background](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/HM Dockyard Bermuda-Ana Brassey 1883.jpg?width=200 "Anna Brassey]] in 1883, with its [[floating drydock]] in the background")
 (cropped).jpg?width=200 "Dry Dock, Toledo Ship Building Company, Toledo, Ohio, 1912")
![Towboat ''Dolphin I'' in [[Bollinger Shipyards]] floating Drydock #2 on the [[Mississippi River]] in [[Algiers, New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DALPHIN I.jpg?width=200 "Towboat ''Dolphin I'' in [[Bollinger Shipyards]] floating Drydock #2 on the [[Mississippi River]] in [[Algiers, New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]]")
![[[Blohm + Voss]] Dock 10, at the [[Port of Hamburg]] Germany](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Blohm+Voss Dock10 Hafen Hamburg 2.jpg?width=200 "[[Blohm + Voss]] Dock 10, at the [[Port of Hamburg]] Germany")
![Floating dry dock located in [[Sevastopol]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sevastopol Floating dock 2008 G1.jpg?width=200 "Floating dry dock located in [[Sevastopol]]")
![Kaohsiung Harbour]], Taiwan](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kaohsiung Taiwan Floating-dock-Jong-Shyn-01.jpg?width=200 "Kaohsiung Harbour]], Taiwan")
Dry dock
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dry dock
(dry docks)
A dry dock is a dock from which water can be removed so that ships or boats can be built or repaired.
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Dry dock
A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform. Dry docks are used for the construction, maintenance, and repair of ships, boats, and other watercraft.
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Dry dock
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A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform. Dry docks are used for the construction, maintenance, and repair of ships, boats, and other watercraft.
Examples of use of dry dock
1. Firefighters responded to an early morning alarm at the ship‘s dry dock.
2. The ship is to be towed to a dry–dock for an extensive overhaul.
3. Its sister ship Ark Royal is in dry–dock being refitted and out of action until 2007.
4. It broke at sea in 1''1 and at a dry dock in 1''6, but there were no injuries.
5. Fifteen people were killed when a gangway collapsed while the ship was in dry dock at St Nazaire, France, in 2003.