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Ships out of Water: SFW Photos of drydock infrastructure and the ships in them.

SFW unless you are bothered by photos of ships out of water exposing their hulls. Floating drydocks, graving docks, slipways and shipyard transporters.

  • Dutch: droog dok, drijvend dok
  • French: câle sèche, bassin de radoub
  • German: schwimmdock, trockendock
  • Italian: bacino di carenaggio
  • Portuguese: doca seca
  • Russian: сухой док
  • Spanish: dique seco, dique flotante

Submission Rules:

  • Title should include ship's name, location, and date (if known).
  • Include the resolution in [brackets] in the title.
  • Imgur albums are allowed if they pertain to a single ship. Include size of largest image in [brackets].
  • Only submit static images, albums, or gifs.
  • Videos, interactive images/websites, and articles are not allowed.
  • Do not submit a shortened link using a URL shortener like tinyurl.

  • Make sure your image is hosted by an approved host.

    • If you took the photo yourself, you can signify this by using the tag [OC] (original content) and after 24 hours you will be given special flair. If you don't receive flair after a few days feel free to message the mods.

  • Regarding reposts: it is not a repost unless it was posted to /r/drydockporn less than three months ago, or if it's already in the top 100 of all time.

  • If you have any questions check out the FAQ.

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    [2048 x 1568] Virginia-class Block III nuclear-powered attack submarine USS South Dakota (SSN-790) in the Trident Refit Facility, Kings Bay dry dock. In February 2024 she became the first Virginia-class fast attack submarine to enter Trident Refit Facility. Photo by TRF/FB.

    5 Comments
    2024/05/01
    11:13 UTC
    317

    Nimitz class carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) in the dry dock at Newport News, Virginia, April 3, 2024. [4440x2742]

    12 Comments
    2024/04/26
    10:55 UTC
    150

    Armored cruiser USS Brooklyn (ACR-3) at League Island Navy Yard, circa 1896-1912. [2484x2128]

    1 Comment
    2024/04/22
    10:43 UTC
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    Kilo-class diesel-electric attack submarine Magadan (B-602), March 26, 2021.

    0 Comments
    2024/04/12
    20:25 UTC
    221

    USS NEW JERSEY(BB-62) seen in dry dock from the air. [1284x1712]

    Photo courtesy of Arthur Gerwitz

    2 Comments
    2024/04/10
    05:27 UTC
    35

    MV Glen Rosa Before launch At ferguson marine, glasgow, scotland

    She is 5 years late, but finally complete

    15 Comments
    2024/04/07
    23:36 UTC
    38

    Russian Navy Project 941UM Akula/Typhoon-class SSBN Dmitri Donskoi (TK-208) in a dry dock, 2018.

    4 Comments
    2024/04/06
    18:54 UTC
    276

    The former USS White Sands (ARD-20) is floated on its side through the far-too-narrow Ballard Locks into Lake Union for service with her new and current owners, Lake Union Dry Dock Co. [1600x1068]

    8 Comments
    2024/04/04
    18:16 UTC
    209

    USS New Jersey (BB-62) in drydock and emerging from the water as she starts her 60-day upkeep and repair period. [1920x2560]

    2 Comments
    2024/04/02
    18:16 UTC
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    [2000 x 1000] Launch of the Pacific Fleet Project 06363/Improved Kilo-class diesel-electric attack submarine Magadan (B-602), March 26, 2021. Photo by Peter Kovalev / TASS.

    0 Comments
    2024/03/26
    09:18 UTC
    92

    [1489x1014] The hull of the former Italian heavy cruiser Trieste, sunk in April 1943, raised postwar, and bought by the Spanish Navy with the intention of converting her into a light carrier, in drydock at the El Ferrol shipyard, 1951

    2 Comments
    2024/03/23
    10:23 UTC
    525

    The Jahre Viking, at one point the largest ship in the world [1365x1024]

    20 Comments
    2024/03/22
    15:46 UTC
    65

    HMS Glasgow in Scotstoun by drone in the early hours

    0 Comments
    2024/03/17
    10:18 UTC
    79

    Refrigerated cargo ship PORT CHALMERS in the Govan dry dock, in Glasgow, Scotland

    4 Comments
    2024/03/16
    04:07 UTC
    71

    British battleship stern damage after Jutland (probably Warspite)

    1 Comment
    2024/03/12
    15:53 UTC
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    Ferry "American Spirit" at Dakota Creek yard, Anacortes, WA, 3/11/24, [OC] [3130x1866]

    1 Comment
    2024/03/11
    18:15 UTC
    75

    USS Arlington (LPD 24) drydocked at NASSCO in Norfolk, Virginia. March 7, 2024 [1536 x 2048]

    0 Comments
    2024/03/10
    11:09 UTC
    59

    USS Oregon (BB-3) in dry dock No. 2 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard – Bremerton – Washington – March 4, 1913. [2048x1226]

    0 Comments
    2024/03/07
    22:44 UTC
    62

    USS Nevada (BB-36) in Dry Dock #1 at Pearl Harbor, March 1932. [5708x4515]

    0 Comments
    2024/03/07
    10:26 UTC
    52

    Stern damage to class-leader escort carrier IJN Taiyō in Kure drydock after USS Trout (SS-202) torpedo. Taiyo was out of the war for over two months for damage repair. 28 September 1942. [1168 × 1680]

    3 Comments
    2024/03/07
    00:46 UTC
    113

    (982 x 1262) Bow damage to HMS King George V from her collision (and sinking of the destroyer Punjab) on 1 May 1942.

    0 Comments
    2024/02/25
    10:38 UTC
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    The battleship HMS Prince of Wales in drydock at Rosyth, early 1941. [1257 x 1817]

    1 Comment
    2024/02/23
    12:05 UTC
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    [5140 x 7410] Launching of the French battleship Paris at the Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée shipyard in La Seyne on, Sept 28, 1912

    0 Comments
    2024/02/23
    10:51 UTC
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