Los Alamos (AFDB-7) at Holy Loch, Scotland
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Los Alamos |
Namesake | Los Alamos, New Mexico |
Builder |
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Commissioned | 1 March 1945 |
Decommissioned | 5 December 1994 |
Reclassified | AFDB-7 (Large Auxiliary Floating Dry Dock), 10 November 1961 |
Stricken | 5 December 1994 |
Fate | Section 'F' sunk as a target 19 July 2001 |
Status | Sections 'A'–'E' and 'G' active in Brownsville, Tx since 11 August 1995 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Advance Base Sectional Drydock |
Displacement | 30,800 long tons (31,294 t) |
Length | 825 ft 3 in (251.54 m) |
Beam | 246 ft 5 in (75.11 m) |
Draft | 8 ft 8 in (2.64 m) |
Propulsion | None |
Complement | 187 |
Armament |
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ABSD-7, an advanced base sectional dock,[1] was constructed of seven advance base docks (ABD) as follows: ABD-37, ABD-38, ABD-39, and ABD-40 were built by Chicago Bridge & Iron Company, Morgan City, Louisiana, and completed in December 1944 and January and February 1945; ABD-51 and ABD-52 were built by Pollock-Stockton Shipbuilding Company, Stockton, California, and completed in January and March 1945; and ABD-58 was built by Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and completed in October 1944.
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