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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 98828

Floating drydock YFD-6 (center section)


Being prepared for transiting the Panama Canal, circa 1945.
This view shows 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. Harbor tug YT-355 is in the left foreground.
The photograph is part of a series released for publication on 26 June 1945.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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10 September 2003