2006-12-04 20:05:48 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
A 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.
Construction features of those European establishments were embodied in the first federal dry dock erected in the United States, a 253-foot graving dock completed at Boston in 1833. Equipped with both copper-sheathed turning gates and a caisson (floating gate), this early work had substantial pump wells, pumping machines, discharge culverts, capstans, and the customary stock of keel blocking. The New York Navy Yard's 307-foot dock, opened in 1851, boasted the world's first all-metal cofferdam, with a sixty-eight-foot entrance and a maximum depth of twenty-six feet, completely adequate for the repair, construction, or routine bottom cleaning of the largest warships.
2006-12-05 02:06:57 · answer #1 · answered by Preeti 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The submerged part of any vessel eventually becomes covered with barnacles, which greatly increase fuel consumption due to increased drag through the water, and protective paint is lost to the corrosive action of salt water. The only solution available is to put the ship into a floating container larger than the ship, called a "drydock", and pump out the water, leaving the ship resting upon form-fitting blocks, high and dry, with the whole hull accessible for necessary work. ...
2006-12-04 20:07:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a place where boats get repaired. Whether they get lifted out of the water with a crane, wait for the tide to go out or enter a work area that gets pumped dry. The boat is docked and it is out of the water as in dry.
2006-12-04 20:10:01 · answer #3 · answered by ccrstitch2003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A 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.
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2006-12-04 21:13:01 · answer #4 · answered by catzpaw 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It refers to a boat or a ship that is docked upon land as opposed to being on the water.
Dry---> Land
Docked--->"Parked"
2006-12-04 20:08:03 · answer #5 · answered by fed-up 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a place they lift the ships up to do the repairs on them
2006-12-04 20:08:38 · answer #6 · answered by deb m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a dock that is dry...lol....ok well..its a dock where boats go and get repaired...happy?
2006-12-04 20:13:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋