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YFD-6 / AFDM-3

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
AFDM-3 Class Medium Auxiliary Floating Dry Dock:
  • Laid down in January 1943 at Chicago Bridge and Iron Co. as Yard Floating Dock YFD-6
  • Delivered and commissioned in December 1943
  • Redesignated Auxiliary Floating Dock Medium AFDM-6 in 1945
  • Decommissioned and inactivated (date unknown)
  • Laid up in the Mobile AL. area
  • Leased to the Bender Shipbuilding and Repair Company, Inc. in 1999
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 15 November 2000
  • Final Disposition, disposed of by Navy sale, 1 April 2002
    Specifications:
    Displacement 6,800 t.(lt) 8,000 t.(fl)
    Length 622'
    Beam 124'
    Draft 7 to 15 ft.
    Complement 4 Officers, 146 Enlisted
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    YTB-229 124k The center section of YFD-6 is being towed by Alarka (YTB-229) (center) and ATA-209 (left) through Culebra Cut in the Panama Canal, circa May-June 1945. Navy SeaBees turned YFD-6's center section on its side and installed a thousand pontoons atop the wing wall to allow the drydock to float on its side during the canal transit. The photograph was released for publication on 25 June 1945.
    US Navy photo # NH 98829 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    AFDM-3 59k The center section of YFD-6 is tilted on end to pass through the Panama Canal.
    US Navy photo for "All Hands" magazine, issue, December 1946    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
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