Word: drydock
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Before her last voyage she was overhauled in drydock at Brooklyn. A minor collision in the Erie basin as she left dry-dock did no more than scrape paint. After this she was examined by three U. S. Department of Commerce inspectors, who spent three days in their work and certified her "seaworthy and equipped according to law." During the inspection every lifeboat was tested; filled with men, lowered to the water and raised again...
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...
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...
...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...
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...