dry docks
Drained repair basins
Dry docks are enclosed basins where ships are brought for repair, maintenance, or construction.
The dock can be drained or the water pumped out, allowing workers to access the hull below the waterline: The vessel entered dry dock for hull inspection.
As a verb, to dry-dock a ship is to bring it into such a facility.
- caissonWatertight underwater enclosure
- shipyardsVessel construction facilities
- dockyardsMaritime construction facilities
- cranesLifting machines or birds
- slipwayInclined shore for launching
floodable · cofferdam · shipbuilding · cradle · maintenance · dewatering · piers · vessels · repair · pump out · drainage channels · ports · naval · seawater · below the waterline · maritime · scaffolding · anchor
- harborpier, piers, wharf, wharves, quay
- portsport, seaport, harbor, seaports, harbors
- shippingshipping, cargo ships, container ships, freight, package
- freight logisticscargo trains, shipping containers, freight cars, customs clearance, cargo handling
- naval historybattleships, naval battles, naval history, admiral, battleship
- shipbuildingshipyards, shipyard, dockyards, hull, hulls
water presence during vessel work
dry docksfloating docks
Buoyant waterside platforms
anchorages · moorings · wharves · quays · jetties