Word: drydocked
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Launched in 1953 at John Brown and Co., Ltd., Clydebank, at a cost of $5.9 million, Britannia has spent more than her share of time in drydock and hot water. She has required eleven overhauls costing $56 million. Annual running operation now comes to $5.4 million, a sore point in Parliament. In 1976, Britannia was refused permission to sail into Montreal for the Summer Olympics until she made costly changes to her sanitary system, which Canadian officials believed would pollute the St. Lawrence River...
Last year, to show its disapproval of the invasion of Afghanistan, the vociferously anti-Soviet government of Singapore closed its superbly equipped and strategically located port and drydock facilities to the Soviet navy. Yet Singapore still does booming business servicing the Soviet fishing, merchant and oceanographic research fleets, all of which have naval auxiliary functions. In fact, Soviet fishing vessels, particularly mother ships, often carry out electronic eavesdropping on other navies. Soviet merchant tankers are frequently diverted to refuel warships. The Soviet Oceanographic Research Fleet-the largest in the world-charts the ocean floor for the navigators aboard Soviet submarines...