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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

AFDB-3 ex ABSD-3
Sections, A through I

Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - India - Hotel - Bravo

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

AFDB-3 Class Large Auxiliary Floating Dry Dock:

Laid down (date unknown) as ABSD-3, a nine section dock, was built in sections at four different shipyards:

Section A - Pollack & Stockton Shipbuilding Co., Stockton, CA.

Sections B & F - Everette Pacific Co., Everette, WA.

Sections C & E - Chicago Bridge & Iron Co., Morgan City, LA.

Sections D, G, H & I - Pittsburgh Des Moines Steel Co., Pittsburgh, PA.

Delivered, (date unknown)

During World War II ABSD-3 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater

Placed in service at Guam, Marianas Islands, circa 1944

Reclassified AFDB-3 (date unknown)

Disassembled at Guam and placed out of Naval service in 1948

Section G laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Green Cove Springs, FL.

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 August 1981

Disposed of by transfer to Bath Iron Works, 1 April 1982

Final Disposition, sold to a shipyard in Croatia, circa 1999

Specifications:
Length 844'

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source/ Contributed By
USS ABSD-3
	91k	*ABSD-3* at Guam, Marianas Islands. Pennsylvania (BB-38) docked in *ABSD-3* after the end of World War II. Note the white boxes on the barge, these are coffins that contain the remains of *Pennsylvania* crew members killed during the Kamikaze attack on her at Okinawa, 12 August 1945. The island at upper left was built between the two drydocks, *ABSD-3* and *ABSD-6. (ABSD-6* is to the left of the picture.) The island was built for supplies and Enlisted and Officers Clubs, movie theater, etc. US Navy photo.	Homer N. Rich Jr. MM3/c USS ABSD-3
	92k	*ABSD-3* crew photo. In the background is the battleship Pennsylvania (BB-38) in the dock.	Homer N. Rich Jr. MM3/c USS ABSD-3
Commercial Service
	71k	Ex-*ABSD-3*, in service at the Bath Iron Works Portland, ME yard, date unknown. The dock was used lift new DDG's built at Bath to install Sonar Domes on the bow.	Chet Morris
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	521k	Ex-*ABSD-3, (eight sections), being loaded aboard the Heavy Lift Vessel MV Blue Marlin* at Portland, ME. Bath Iron Works, Portland yard, used the dock to lift new DDG's built at Bath to install Sonar Domes on the bow. Bath Iron Works built a new land level facility in Bath and had no further use for the Portland yard and ex-*ABSD-3*. The drydock was split into two sections and transported to Croatia.	Chet Morris
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