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What is a graving dock?

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Question added by Wolf Klaas Kinsbergen , Managing Director, Designer , ingenieursbureau KB International NV
Date Posted: 2015/01/04
Wolf Klaas Kinsbergen
by Wolf Klaas Kinsbergen , Managing Director, Designer , ingenieursbureau KB International NV

 

The classic form of drydock, properly known as graving dock, is a narrow basin, usually made of earthen berms and concrete, closed by gates or by a caisson, into which a vessel may be floated and the water pumped out, leaving the vessel supported on blocks. The keel blocks as well as the bilge block are placed on the floor of the dock in accordance with the "docking plan" of the ship.

 

Alex Al Yazouri
by Alex Al Yazouri , General Manager , Al Mushref Cooperative Society

Graving dock or dry dock is the mechanical shop and the body shop of the ships after being chained and pulled out of water.

Vinod Jetley
by Vinod Jetley , Assistant General Manager , State Bank of India

A dry dock where the hulls of ships are repaired and maintained.

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