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Patch at left contributed by Mike Smolinski, at right is US Navy Photo # NH 65597-KN from the Naval Historical Center

ABSD-7 / AFDB-7 Los Alamos

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign: November - Whiskey - Bravo - Echo

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation (3) - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (5)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal

ABSD-4 Class Advance Base Section Dock:

Constructed of seven Advance Base Docks, (ABD-37, ABD-38, ABD-39, and ABD-40 built at Chicago Bridge & Iron Co., Morgan City, LA.

Completed in December 1944 and January and February 1945

ABD-51 and ABD-52 built at Pollock Stockton Shipbuilding Co., Stockton, CA., completed in January and March 1945

ABD-58 built at Pittsburgh Des Moines Steel Co., Pittsburgh, PA., completed October 1944

Erected and assembled into (ABSD-7) at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., completed in March 1945

Placed in service at Mare Island Navy Yard, upon completion

Inactivated in March 1946

Reclassified Auxiliary Floating Drydock (AFDB-7) in August 1946

Disassembled and towed to Green Cove Springs FL. for lay up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet in January 1947

Sections "A", "B", "C", and "D" of (AFDB-7) towed to Holy Loch, Scotland, in 1961

Placed in service as Los Alamos (AFDB-7), 10 November 1961

Disassembled and its sections returned to the United States, early 1990s

In 1996 six of the original ABSD-7 sections transferred to the Brownsville Navigation District, TX. Another had been turned over to the U.S. Army in 1968

Current Disposition, in operation at Keppel AmFELS Shipyard, Brownsville, TX., servicing ships and oil rigs. renamed Solomon Ortiz Dry Dock.

ABSD Specifications (7 sections):
Displacement 30,800 t.(lt.)
Length 825'
Beam 246' 5"
Draft 8' 8" (lt), 67' 4" (subm. max.)
Complement 187
Armament fourteen 40mm guns, fourteen 20mm guns

FBM Dry Dock Specifications (4 sections):
Displacement 18,700 t.(It.)
Length 513'
Beam 246' 5"
Draft 9' 3" (It.), 67' 4" (subm. max.)
Complement 143
Armament none

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
62k	Los Alamos (AFDB-7) at Holy Loch, Scotland, 19 March 1963, with Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602) in the dock. US Navy photo from DANFS	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret
34k	Los Alamos (AFDB-7) at Holy Loch, Scotland in February 1963.	.
103k	Los Alamos (AFDB-7) at Holy Loch, Scotland with a ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) inside, circa 1980s. Simon Lake (AS-33) is in the left distance. US Navy photo # NH 98381-KN from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center
133k	Los Alamos (AFDB-7) at Holy Loch, Scotland with a ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) inside, December 1985. US Navy photo by PH1 Perry E. Thorsvik.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
107k	A section of floating drydock *Los Alamos* under tow by the fleet tug Salinan (ATF-161), 1976. In July-August 1976 *Salinan* and Shakori (ATF-162)> towed a dry dock section from Charleston, S.C., to Holy Loch, Scotland. *Salinan* and Papago (ATF-160) towed other *Los Alamos* sections back to the U.S. from Holy Loch in October-November 1976. Photograph received from *Salinan* in 1978. US Navy photo # NH 98427 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center

View the Los Alamos (AFDB-7)
DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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