The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Floating Drydocks Built in Wilmington-- Part 1
From the Wilmington (NC) Star-News "Mr Reporter: Were floating drydocks built during World War II along the Northeast Cape Fear River?" by Ken Little.
According to Wilmington World War II historian Wilbur D. Jones, Jr., two concrete drydocks were built in a small shipyard along the Northeast Cape Fear between present day PPD and the Wilmington Convention Center.
They were built for the Navy in the spring of 1944. Each was self-contained and measured 389-feet long and 84-feet wide. They measured 40-feet deep with pontoons 14 -feet deep and wingwall tapering from 13-feet wide at the base to 10-feet at the top.
Floating Concrete? --GreGen
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