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USS YFD-6
USS ''AFDM-3'', (former ''YFD-6''), was the lead ship of the ''AFDM-3''-class floating dry dock built in 1943 and operated by the United States Navy. Construction and career ''YFD-6'' was built at the Chicago Bridge and Iron Shipyard, in Chicago, Illinois in January 1943. She was commissioned on 9 December 1943. From 24 to 26 June 1944, USS Larch (YN-16) was dry-docked inside ''YFD-6''. In late December 1944, USS Arikara (AT-98) voyaged to Trinidad where she took ''YFD-6'' in tow before continuing on to the Panama Canal. On 26 June 1945, ''YFD-6'' was prepared transiting the Panama Canal, circa 1945. ''YFD-6'''s center section fully turned 90 degrees, floating on its side with the support of a thousand Navy pontoons installed atop the wing wall. This work, done by Navy SeaBees, was necessary to allow the drydock section to fit through the canal's locks. USS YT-355, USS Alarka (YTB-229) and USS Umpqua (ATA-209) guided and towed the dry dock through the canal. In AUgu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Bridge & Iron Company
CB&I is a large engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company with its administrative headquarters in The Woodlands, Texas. CB&I specializes in projects for oil and gas companies. CB&I employs more than 32,000 people worldwide. In May 2018 the company merged into McDermott International. McDermott struggled to integrate its acquisition of Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. On January 21, 2020, McDermott announced that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to asbestos Litigation. A $22.5 million trust fund was made to handle asbestos claims. History CB&I was founded in 1889 by Horace E. Horton in Chicago, Illinois, USA. While initially involved in bridge design and construction, CB&I turned its focus to bulk liquid storage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, coinciding with the western expansion of railroads across the United States and the discovery of oil in the Southwest. CB&I quickly became known for design engineering and field construction of elevated water ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS ARD-10
USS ''ARD-10'' was an auxiliary repair dock in the service of the United States Navy in World War II as an auxiliary floating drydock, built by Pacific Bridge Company. As was common with other auxiliary repair docks, the ship was only known by her designation and was not otherwise named. ''ARD-10'' was commissioned in Alameda, California in October 1943. She was towed by from San Francisco, California on 12 December 1943 first to Sydney, Australia and then on to Melbourne on 1 February 1944. ''Yuma'' and ''ARD-10'' finally arrived at Fremantle, Western Australia, on 6 March 1944. There ''ARD-10'' served the submarine base until end of the war. ''ARD-10'' returned to the United States after in 1946. She was stricken from US Navy service in July 1972 and subsequently sold to Bendershipbuilding Repair Co. of Mexico. the ship was still operational. ''ARD-10'' was a member of the ''ARD-2'' class of Auxiliary Repair Drydocks (ARD). The ''ARD-2'' class of drydocks dates to early Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balboa, Panama
Balboa is a district of Panama City, located at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. History The town of Balboa, founded by the United States during the construction of the Panama Canal, was named after Vasco Núñez de Balboa, the Spanish conquistador credited with discovering the Pacific Ocean. The name was suggested to the Canal Zone authorities by the Peruvian ambassador to Panama. Prior to being drained, filled and leveled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the hilly area north of Panama City was home to a few subsistence ranches and unused marshlands. The town of Balboa, like most towns in the Canal Zone, was served by Canal Zone Government–operated schools, post office, police and fire stations, commissary, cafeteria, movie theater, service center, bowling alley, and other recreational facilities and company stores. There were several schools in the area, including Balboa Elementary School, Balboa High School (Panama), Balboa High School, and the private St. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Sustain (AFDM-7)
The USS ''Sustain'' (AFDM-7), (formerly ''YFD-63''), was a ''AFDM-3''-class floating dry dock built in 1945 and operated by the United States Navy. Construction and career ''YFD-63'' was built by the Everett Pacific Shipbuilding Co., in Everett, Washington in 1945. Melucta with ''YFD-63'' in tow departed Everett for Moore Dry Dock Co., Alameda, on 23 January 1945. She would be commissioned later in 1945 after her delivery to the Navy on 1 January. On 1 August 1946, the dry dock was re-designated as AFDM-7. On 28 October 1950, the dry dock would be on commercial lease. In 1956, ''AFDM-7'' was towed through the Panama Canal and leased to Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company. In October 1971, the Navy would reacquire the dry dock as the lease was over. ''AFDM-7'' would be repaired and refitted by the Navy Seabees at Davisville, January 1972. Stationed at Melville from June 1972 until 1974. In December 1972, USS Nantahala (AO-60) was dry docked inside ''AFDM-7'' at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is an American lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. It was often visited by the Naval fleet of the United States, before it was acquired from the Hawaiian Kingdom by the U.S. with the signing of the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands are now a United States Navy deep-water naval base. It is also the headquarters of the United States Pacific Fleet. The U.S. government first obtained exclusive use of the inlet and the right to maintain a repair and coaling station for ships here in 1887. The surprise attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy on December 7, 1941, led the United States to declare war on the Empire of Japan, making the attack on Pearl Harbor the immediate cause of the United States' entry into World War II. History Pearl Harbor was originally an extensive shallow embayment called ''Wai Momi'' (meaning, “Waters of Pearl”) or ''Puuloa'' (meaning, “long hill”) by the Hawaiians. Puuloa was r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Tawakoni
USS ''Tawakoni'' (ATF-114) was an fleet ocean tug that served on active duty with the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1978, seeing action in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. After thirty-four years of service, she was sold to the Republic of China Navy (Taiwan), where she served until November 2020. History Service in the United States Navy ''Tawakoni'' was named after a Caddoan Indian tribe of the Wichita group that lived in Texas on the banks of the middle Brazos and Trinity Rivers during the 18th and 19th centuries. She began her naval career in the Pacific theater, joining the U.S. 5th fleet just in time for the invasion of Iwo Jima, which took place in February 1945. During this battle ''Tawakoni'' assisted the destroyer minesweeper , which had been hit by two 250-pound bombs on 18 February. She also assisted in retraction, towing and salvage operations off Iwo Jima until the latter part of March, when she returned to Ulithi for repairs to minor damage s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Cahuilla (ATF-152)
USS ''Cahuilla'' (ATF-152) was an Abnaki class fleet tug in the service of the United States Navy during World War II. In 1961 she was sold to the Argentine Navy as ARA ''Irigoyen'' (A-1) where she served until 2009 when she became a Museum ship. US Navy service She was laid down as ''Cahuilla'' (AT-152) at Charleston Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. of Charleston, South Carolina; redesignated fleet ocean tug (ATF-152) on 15 May 1944; launched on 2 November 1944; and commissioned USS ''Cahuilla'' (ATF-152) on 10 March 1945. World War II Pacific Theatre operations USS ''Cahuilla's'' first service to the U.S. Navy was a brief tour as antisubmarine attack teacher at Norfolk, Virginia. From there she sailed 18 April 1945 towing for Pearl Harbor. After delivering her tow 24 May, the fleet tug sailed for Guam, where she took a string of pontoon barges in tow for Okinawa. From 26 July to 6 August, she served to escort convoys and as rescue tug for the ships passing through the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Bluebird (ASR-19)
The second USS ''Bluebird'' (ASR-19) was a ''Penguin''-class submarine rescue ship in the United States Navy. ''Bluebird'' was laid down on 23 June 1945 at Charleston, South Carolina, by the Charleston Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. as the fleet ocean tug ''Yurok'' (ATF-164). It was redesignated as the submarine rescue ship ASR-19 on 7 November 1945, and renamed ''Bluebird'' on 3 December 1945. ''Bluebird'' was launched on 15 February 1946, sponsored by Mrs. Paul Lambert Borden, and commissioned at the Charleston Naval Shipyard on 28 May 1946. ''Bluebird'' reported to the Commander, Training Group, Atlantic Fleet, in mid-July and completed shakedown training in Chesapeake Bay. After post-shakedown repairs at Charleston, the submarine rescue vessel reported for duty with the Submarine Force, Atlantic Fleet on 28 August. On the following day, however, she departed Charleston under orders to join Submarine Squadron (SubRon) 5, Pacific Fleet. She transited the Panama Canal on 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
