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ARD-3


ARD-3 Class Auxiliary Repair Dock:
  • Appropriations for $10,000,000 earmarked by Congress for floating drydock for Pearl Harbor, 1936
  • Bids opened, 25 November 1936
  • Lowest bid received from Bethlehem Steel, $21,312,000
  • Navy asked for additional $5,000,000, which was declined
  • Project cancelled, early 1937
    Specifications:
    Displacement 45,000 tons
    Length 1,018'
    Beam 175'
    Draft 5'
    Armament unknown
    Complement unknown

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    ARD-3
    096710301
    332k Artist's impression of what ARD-3 would have looked like.
    Illustration by Benjamin G. Seielstad in Popular Science Monthly, February 1937.
    Dave Wright

    There is no DANFS history available for ARD-3 at NavSource
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation

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