LAND LEVEL SUBMARINE CONSTRUCTION FACILITY

Shipbuilding facilities fall into three general categories: inclined ways, building basins, and land level facilities. This paper describes a new facility at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics, which is in the latter category. This paper describes a new facility at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics, which is in the latter category. This facility is unique in that the ship is lowered from land level on a pontoon in a graving dock. The dock and pontoon are then reflooded to float the ship.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Paper presented at the Spring Meeting/STAR Symposium, New London, Connecticut, April 26-29, 1978. Available only in bound proceedings.
• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers

  601 Pavonia Avenue
  Jersey City, NJ  United States  07306-2907
• Authors:
  • Wood, F W
  • Salzer, J R
• Publication Date: 1978

Media Info

• Pagination: n.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Drydocks; Launching; Management; Shipbuilding; Shipyards; Submarines
• Old TRIS Terms: Drydock facilities; Shipyard management
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00173972
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
• Report/Paper Numbers: No. 14
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 3 1978 12:00AM