dry dock in English

noun
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a dock that can be drained of water to allow the inspection and repair of a ship's hull.
By the autumn of 1996 there was sufficient funding to allow the ship to be moved into the adjacent dry dock at Hartlepool Historic Quay to begin the crucial work on the below-the-waterline hull structure.
verb
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place (a ship) in a dry dock.
Another two ships were dry-docked at the end of slipways while a few cold-looking workers labored at scraping down the hulls.
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1. 24 The ship is in dry dock.

2. Owned by SembCorp Marine, the shipyard has the deepest dry dock in Southeast Asia.

3. Located on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway at Mile 49, Bourg Dry Dock consists of two facilities

4. USS Abnaki (AT-96) Abnaki (AT-96) was launched 22 April 1943 by Charleston Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co

5. USS Achernar (AKA-53) Achernar (AKA-53) was launched 3 December 1943 by Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co

6. Crestfallen, we were forced to dry dock the boat for a year to save enough to re-approach the situation

7. Although occasionally an older vessel may substitute for one in dry dock,(Sentencedict.com) many venerable craft have been pensioned off.

8. Capricornus (AKA-57) was launched on 14 August 1943 as Spitfire by Moore Dry Dock Co., Oakland, California, under a Maritime Commission contract, sponsored by Mrs

9. She spent two days there in dry dock for temporary repairs, before departing for Hong Kong on 25 September, her role in the conflict being replaced by Theseus.

10. Our fully functional shipyard, Bourg Dry Dock, is capable of constructing, drydocking, gas freeing, treating water used in cleaning, and repairing marine vessels as well as all types of barges

11. A drain or covered channel that crosses under a road, railway, etc a channel for an electric cable a tunnel through which water is pumped into or out of a dry dock Word Origin for Culvert

12. The company’s facilities are located at the Kishon Port (part of the Port of Haifa complex) include a floating dry dock with 20,000 tons of lifting capacity and a 900 meters long wharf with 12 meters of water depth.

13. The raids on Singapore Naval Base damaged or destroyed many workshops and denied the Japanese the use of the King George VI Graving Dock between late 1944 and early 1945, and the Admiralty IX Dry Dock from February 1945.

14. Choose the right Antifouling or fouling-release product engineered to protect ships at new-build and/or dry dock application with a coatings range that supports fuel-saving programs, idle-day tolerance as well as reduction of the environmental footprint.