Thor were a couple of naval officers in the Japanese navy who wanted to make tracking the location of the dry docks a priority. It didn’t really happen in a serious way and the years that following the war there was lots of hard feelings. Damaged ships were simply lost or worse, recovered by the alíes. The Japanese navy and the army spent quite a bit of the war blaming each other but the arrival of the dry docks in each retaken foothold meant that a large portions of the ships that Japan would reasonably be expected to be lost would be returning to action effectively fully functional. The war was hopeless.
There is an AFDL in use at Alameda, California by Pacific Dry Dock. Floating Dry Docks helped win WWII in a big way! TM who has visited the dock with ships in them.
If you go and view the livestreams, you'll see lines being toss from each wall of the drydock to the KIDD to center her up on the dock. Lots of mathematics and planning were involved. Divers are often used to confirm those mathematical results.
Water hyacinth. You'll find it in pretty much any body of water in Louisiana, and this shipyard is located in the southern part of the state. During the filming of this video water was being pumped from the drydock, causing the water hyacinth to get churned up. In an upcoming video showing the drained drydock, you'll see the plants left behind all around the ship.
So, with Texas and New Jersey coming out of dry dock and now the Kidd going in and also next year The Sullivan's going into dry dock, do yall know when other museum ships are going to go into dry dock? I would imagine that all of them minus Constitution is due to dry dock. I follow as many of the museum ships that have TH-cam channels but they don't seem to update as much as yall, New Jersey and now The Sullivan's channel does. Or they just don't have a channel.
Here’s a list of vessels that we know of who have gone to drydock in since becoming museum ships: PAMPANITO (1987, 1993, 1999, 2007, 2016, 2021), TEXAS (1988, 2022), COBIA (1996), CONSTELLATION (1996-99, 2015-16, 2022), MASSACHUSETTS (1998-99), LIONFISH (1999), HAIDA (2002-03, 2016), LST-325 (2003-04, 2013, 2024), EDSON (2004-05), INTREPID (2007), LAFFEY (2009), TORSK (2011), HOGA (2012), SLATER (2014, 2020), TURNER JOY (2017), TANEY (2020), SACKVILLE (2020), COD (2021), INGHAM (2009, 2021), ORLECK (2022), NAUTILUS (2021-22), BOWFIN (2022), AMERICAN VICTORY (2022), VAMPIRE (2023), JEREMIAH O'BRIEN (2023), NEW JERSEY (2024), MAILLE BREZE (2024), JOHN W. BROWN (2024), and KIDD (2024). Here's a list of museum vessels that we know of who are planning an upcoming drydocking: THE SULLIVANS (planned 2025), CROAKER (planned 2025), COBIA (planned 2025)
@@usskidd661and while Alabama hasn’t been to dry dock she had major hull work done in the late 90s. And Drum is now in a permanent dry berth situation.
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@@usskidd661 Thanks, again GREAT video, I subscribe to the Texas, New Jersey and now your channel, I grew up in Houston and lived there for 30 years, have been on the Texas many, many times, I am so glad it's new home will be in Galveston, the old berth was in a sketchy part of Houston and was bordered by refineries, the Texas will get a lot more visitation in Galveston. Keep up the great videos!
@@usskidd661 Also have you ever noticed the similarities between Adam Schiff (D) and Mr. Mackey from South Park??? www.google.com/imgres?q=mr.%20mackey%20south%20park&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic1.srcdn.com%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F02%2FSouth-Park-Pajama-Day-Mr-Mackey.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fscreenrant.com%2Fsouth-park-mr-mackey-voice-actor-change-backlash%2F&docid=z3Ge25C-6kcqUM&tbnid=I548yuFtvhRBLM&vet=12ahUKEwiD7daq1IaIAxXzMtAFHcTQKOwQM3oECG0QAA..i&w=2200&h=1100&hcb=2&ved=2ahUKEwiD7daq1IaIAxXzMtAFHcTQKOwQM3oECG0QAA
Just because Ryan stands in one place and talks doesn't make it interesting. We tune in to see the ship so pick up the camera and show us whats going on.
Ryan is in a class all his own. He lives and breathes anything to do with the new jersey. I believe he lives on the ship. (Not really, but I wouldn't put it past him. ) 😅
We did as much with this drydocking as we were allowed to do per safety restrictions. If you watch the drydocking livestreams, you'll see that this vantage point was the closest that we could get to her. We were not allowed on the drydock as we would have been in the way of the shipyard workers. We included footage here from Project Update #5 where Tim was allowed on the dock while the yard was dismantling the previous vessel's blocking arrangement. There is drone footage that is forthcoming, but because of military contracts of new construction in the immediate vicinity, all of that footage must be reviewed first and cleared for release to the general public.
Great overview of the development and use of mobile US Navy drydocks during WW2.
Thank your channel for my introduction and education on floating dry docks
an amazing concept that I knew not existed
@Daracdor : Thank you for watching. Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂 Check out all the playlists. You may find other items of interest.
Thor were a couple of naval officers in the Japanese navy who wanted to make tracking the location of the dry docks a priority. It didn’t really happen in a serious way and the years that following the war there was lots of hard feelings. Damaged ships were simply lost or worse, recovered by the alíes. The Japanese navy and the army spent quite a bit of the war blaming each other but the arrival of the dry docks in each retaken foothold meant that a large portions of the ships that Japan would reasonably be expected to be lost would be returning to action effectively fully functional. The war was hopeless.
There is an AFDL in use at Alameda, California by Pacific Dry Dock. Floating Dry Docks helped win WWII in a big way! TM who has visited the dock with ships in them.
The battleship that’s in Los Angeles is the USS Iowa
does the navy still use dry docks or big the ship back home with the new lift ships
Both
What is that plant floating around? Does it have any uses? Like, can you feed it to cattle or do fish gather under it or something?
@buckstarchaser2376 : Unknown. But it is blown to and fro by the wind. One minute, it's there. The next, it's gone.
How did they guide the Kidd on the keel blocks? Did she fit like a puzzle, or divers guided the hull, etc.
If you go and view the livestreams, you'll see lines being toss from each wall of the drydock to the KIDD to center her up on the dock. Lots of mathematics and planning were involved. Divers are often used to confirm those mathematical results.
Nope, I was not going to ask you about the floating dry dock, but what is going on with the floating plant material in the river?
Water hyacinth. You'll find it in pretty much any body of water in Louisiana, and this shipyard is located in the southern part of the state. During the filming of this video water was being pumped from the drydock, causing the water hyacinth to get churned up. In an upcoming video showing the drained drydock, you'll see the plants left behind all around the ship.
Disappointed in these comments... Stand strong, pirates.
Way cool, so does this speed up the process?
For ships damaged in the middle of the ocean, the mobile drydocks expedite the repair process greatly. The turnaround time is weeks instead of months.
So, with Texas and New Jersey coming out of dry dock and now the Kidd going in and also next year The Sullivan's going into dry dock, do yall know when other museum ships are going to go into dry dock? I would imagine that all of them minus Constitution is due to dry dock. I follow as many of the museum ships that have TH-cam channels but they don't seem to update as much as yall, New Jersey and now The Sullivan's channel does. Or they just don't have a channel.
Here’s a list of vessels that we know of who have gone to drydock in since becoming museum ships:
PAMPANITO (1987, 1993, 1999, 2007, 2016, 2021), TEXAS (1988, 2022), COBIA (1996), CONSTELLATION (1996-99, 2015-16, 2022), MASSACHUSETTS (1998-99), LIONFISH (1999), HAIDA (2002-03, 2016), LST-325 (2003-04, 2013, 2024), EDSON (2004-05), INTREPID (2007), LAFFEY (2009), TORSK (2011), HOGA (2012), SLATER (2014, 2020), TURNER JOY (2017), TANEY (2020), SACKVILLE (2020), COD (2021), INGHAM (2009, 2021), ORLECK (2022), NAUTILUS (2021-22), BOWFIN (2022), AMERICAN VICTORY (2022), VAMPIRE (2023), JEREMIAH O'BRIEN (2023), NEW JERSEY (2024), MAILLE BREZE (2024), JOHN W. BROWN (2024), and KIDD (2024).
Here's a list of museum vessels that we know of who are planning an upcoming drydocking:
THE SULLIVANS (planned 2025), CROAKER (planned 2025), COBIA (planned 2025)
@@usskidd661and while Alabama hasn’t been to dry dock she had major hull work done in the late 90s. And Drum is now in a permanent dry berth situation.
Be nice to see how you got the ship off the cradel
This video should help
th-cam.com/video/5Pkj-IAShSI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=tMpGqOniGOIWF14b
Great video, very informative, but please, please, please quit saying mkay, it reminds me of Mr. Mackey from South Park.
Otherwise EXCELLENT video!
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@@usskidd661 Thanks, again GREAT video, I subscribe to the Texas, New Jersey and now your channel, I grew up in Houston and lived there for 30 years, have been on the Texas many, many times, I am so glad it's new home will be in Galveston, the old berth was in a sketchy part of Houston and was bordered by refineries, the Texas will get a lot more visitation in Galveston. Keep up the great videos!
@@usskidd661 Also have you ever noticed the similarities between Adam Schiff (D) and Mr. Mackey from South Park???
www.google.com/imgres?q=mr.%20mackey%20south%20park&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic1.srcdn.com%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F02%2FSouth-Park-Pajama-Day-Mr-Mackey.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fscreenrant.com%2Fsouth-park-mr-mackey-voice-actor-change-backlash%2F&docid=z3Ge25C-6kcqUM&tbnid=I548yuFtvhRBLM&vet=12ahUKEwiD7daq1IaIAxXzMtAFHcTQKOwQM3oECG0QAA..i&w=2200&h=1100&hcb=2&ved=2ahUKEwiD7daq1IaIAxXzMtAFHcTQKOwQM3oECG0QAA
@@usskidd661 Thanks for the compliment on my doggos, they are my kids.
Just because Ryan stands in one place and talks doesn't make it interesting. We tune in to see the ship so pick up the camera and show us whats going on.
Ryan is in a class all his own.
He lives and breathes anything to do with the new jersey.
I believe he lives on the ship.
(Not really, but I wouldn't put it past him. ) 😅
We did as much with this drydocking as we were allowed to do per safety restrictions. If you watch the drydocking livestreams, you'll see that this vantage point was the closest that we could get to her. We were not allowed on the drydock as we would have been in the way of the shipyard workers. We included footage here from Project Update #5 where Tim was allowed on the dock while the yard was dismantling the previous vessel's blocking arrangement. There is drone footage that is forthcoming, but because of military contracts of new construction in the immediate vicinity, all of that footage must be reviewed first and cleared for release to the general public.