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Photo #: NH 98830
Floating drydock YFD-6 (center section)
Transiting the Panama Canal, circa 1945.
To permit it to fit through the canal locks, Navy SeaBees installed
a thousand Navy pontoons one of the drydock's center section
wing wall, so it could float on its side during the canal passage.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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