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Advanced Base Sectional Dock - The Story of a World War II Floating Dry Dock and How the Bay Area was Involved
When the US Navy started operations in the South Pacific in 1942, the ship docking facilities were limited to ports in New Zealand, Australia, Pearl Harbor, and a few ports on the west coast of America. This required trips of thousands of miles for servicing or battle damage repairs. The need for a “portable” floating dry dock resulted in the Advanced Base Sectional Dock (ABSD) – a self-sustaining design that could be built rapidly and deployed to safe areas near the battle zone. This saved many damaged ships and allowed many more ships to remain near the action instead of spending weeks sailing to a shore-based facility.
Please join the Historical Society of Santa Rosa to learn about this little-known element of the US Navy in WWII with presenter Andy Werback. Andy is from China Lake, California, home of Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. He is a retired software engineer spending 35 years programming embedded computers for Radar Warning.
Registration link: tinyurl.com/HSSRWebinarJan2024