Refits of RN Ships in USA/Drydocks
January 2nd, 2009 From
>Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 09:50:52 -0700
>From: Mike Potter
>Reply-To: mike.potter@artecon.com
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>To: mahan@microwrks.com
>Subject: Re: Refits of RN Ships in USA/Drydocks
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>Does anyone know of a source for a photograph of HMS =Valiant= in this
>drydock:
>
>Late in the war at Trincomalee, Ceylon, the CO of the French battleship
>=Richelieu= declined to have his ship raised on one of the new Indian
>drydocks. He suspected it was weak. Instead HMS =Valiant= became the
>drydock’s first battleship customer. Upon lifting her the drydock broke
>up, badly damaging =Valiant= and terminating her operational career.
>
> > By this time the RN had lost Singapore, so AFD 5 was the only drydock
> > able to take a British BB between Gibraltar and Esquimalt, going
> > eastabout. A programme of dock building was started with new graving
> > docks at Cape Town and Sydney, and two floating docks being built in
> > India, all BB size.
>
>–
>Michael C. Potter, Mgr, TelCo/Govt Programs mike.potter@artecon.com
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