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ABSD-7 / AFDB-7 Los Alamos

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; In service at Mare Island Navy Yard, upon completion until inactivated 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.

Specifications: 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: Displacement 18,700 t.(It.); Length 513'; Beam 246' 5"; Draft 9' 3" (It.), 67' 4" (subm. max.); complement 143; Armament none.
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AFDB-7 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
AFDB-7 34k Los Alamos (AFDB-7) at Holy Loch, Scotland in February 1963. .
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