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Word: drydock (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the patched-up S-4 was floated again and towed from the drydock for internal repairs. Soon she will be in running order once more. She will be remanned. She will go to sea. She will dive down under the sea-and come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: S-4, Finis | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

Beribboned, bedraped, the interior of Grand Central Palace, Manhattan, last week went drydock. A 62 foot Elco cruiser, biggest boat of the show, rumbled up to the doors and towered at anchor. A 30,000 pound Diesel engine arrived and sat solemnly in one corner. Propellers, pennants, anchors, gyroscopes, all manner of gadgets ranged themselves agreeably on the shelves. The 23rd annual Motor Boat Show was declared open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Show Boat | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...weeks ago (TIME, July 12) the persistent salvagers completed their trying task, raising the S-51 132 feet from off her ocean bier by means of pontoons. They towed her into drydock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: De Profundis | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

Unfortunately for those who pictured the vessel sinking off Cape Hatteras and the block of wood floating from there to Martha's Vineyard, it has been learned that the Norka has been in drydock for the past two years. Suggestions that the block of wood was used as a moving picture property have been made, but this theory has not been verified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arrival of Message From Dying Ship-Wrecked Mariners Addressed to Undergraduate Evokes an Evasive Answer | 10/15/1925 | See Source »

...Renown, on which the Prince made his former trips, is laid up in drydock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Prince's Trip | 3/23/1925 | See Source »

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