Dry Dock

The dry dock is a place where ships come to be serviced or repainted. The final stages of production in most ships is also done in the dry dock.

A dry dock will usually be an area below sea level, continuous with the sea. Support can be set up capable of holding the ship upright when there is no water. The ship enters the dry dock, usually with the help of tugboats if the ship is large.

Large hydraulic gates close, separating the dry dock, and the ship, from the sea. After the ship is in place, powerful pumps start to remove the water from the dry dock, pumping it back into the harbour. This process can take a long time.

Some fine-tuning of the ship's position is done by scuba diverss while there is still some water left to manoeuvre it about. It is important that the ship is balanced on its support blocks: if it tumbled it there would be substantial damage.

Once the remainder of the water is pumped out, people can walk around in the dry dock, and the ship can be freely inspected or serviced.

When work on the ship is finished, water is allowed to reenter the dry dock and the ship is carefully refloated.

Dry docks are usually built on the shore; however, floating drydocks are ships which have the same abilities.

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	"The Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Company's Works". In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 72. Credit: America's Coastlines.		Bow-on view of vessel in dry dock in 1985, as seen from vessel centerline. Photograph by Jet Lowe, May/October 1985. (Reproduction Number: HAER, WASH,17-SEAT,10-16) Historic ships are among the most difficult objects to preserve and few vessels survive long enough to be considered historic. Those that do require expensive maintenance to be operational. The 1897 schooner Wawona was put into a floating dry dock in 1985 to allow necessary periodic repairs to the wooden hull. While the hull was accessible, HAER measured and mapped the shape of the hull in a series of topographic drawings, a process called "lines-lifting." This lumber schooner was the first project of HAER's ongoing maritime program. (See HABS/HAER, National Park Service for more history.). Credit: Library of Congress.
	Workmen lay the ship's 15-ton keel plate and initial shell plate, in a construction dry dock at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, 18 April 1949. The carrier was cancelled a few days later, on 23 April. Credit: NAVY.		Ship's keel plate being laid in a construction dry dock at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, 18 April 1949. The carrier was cancelled a few days later, on 23 April. Credit: NAVY.
	Salvaged submarine S-4 placed in Boston dry dock after being raised from waters in which crew, 42 men, died, shown as the pontoons which raised the submarine were released. Credit: Library of Congress.		Cramp's dry dock, Philadelphia. Credit: Library of Congress.
	The Gate, Cramp's dry dock, Philadelphia. Credit: Library of Congress.		Dry dock, Olga, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Dry dock, Pearl Habor [sic], H.T. Credit: Library of Congress.		Waterfront view of plant of Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Dry Dock

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Senegal	The port is one of the few in Africa with a floating dry dock, and it has container, cereal and dedicated phosphate terminals. (references)
	South Africa	The trends in fixed investment spending suggest that areas of potential investment include water management; power/renewable energy; health care services, particularly service delivery; the promotion of tourism and other service-related industries; airport expansion and ground support equipment and port operations such as the Richards Bay dry dock as well as information technology. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dry Dock

Language		Translations for "dry dock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		suchý dok. (various references)

Danish		toerdok (graving dock). (various references)

Dutch		droogdok (graving dock). (various references)

French		souille (dredged berth), forme sèche, forme de radoub, cale sèche, bassin de radoub. (various references)

German		Trockendock (graving dock). (various references)

Greek		μόνιμη δεξαμενή (graving dock). (various references)

Hungarian		szárazdokk (graving dock). (various references)

Indonesian		limbung (bewildered, fenced-in bathing place, inner harbor, unsteady because top heavy), galangan (shipyard, slip). (various references)

Italian		bacino di raddobbo (graving dock), bacino di carenaggio (graving dock). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		乾船� , 乾ドック . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		か�"ドック, か�"どっく, か�"せ�"きょ. (various references)

Manx		lhonglann chirrym. (various references)

Pig Latin		ydray ockday

Portuguese		doca seco (graving dock). (various references)

Romanian		bazin fãrã apã. (various references)

Spanish		dique seco (graving dock), dique de carena (graving dock). (various references)

Swedish		torrdocka (graving dock), flytdocka (floating dock). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Dry Dock

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-d-k-o-r-y"
	-2 letters: corky, dorky, rocky.
	-3 letters: cord, cork, cory, dock, dork, dory, rock, yock.
	-4 letters: cod, cor, coy, cry, doc, dor, dry, kor, odd, orc, roc, rod, yod, yok.
	-5 letters: do, od, or, oy, yo.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-d-k-o-r-y"
	+1 letter: dockyard.
	+2 letters: dockyards.
	+5 letters: hydrocracked.
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Domain	Title
Books	Launching History: The Saga of Burrard Dry Dock (reference) (more book examples)
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Expression	Frequency per Day
dry dock	33
dry dock marine	4
the rockmore dry dock	2
floating dry dock	2
dry dock marina	2
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Expressions using "dry dock": floating dry dock ♦ in dry dock. Additional references.
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Misspellings
	"Dry Dock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: drydock. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Dry Dock

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Modern Translation: Dry Dock

Czech

Danish

Dutch

French

German

Greek

Hungarian

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Manx

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Romanian

Spanish

Swedish

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