r/drydockporn • • 6h ago

[2048 x 1386] On October 16, 2026, Naval Group has rolled out Rubis (S-639), the fifth Barracuda type nuclear attack submarine (SSN), transferring the vessel to its shiplift in Cherbourg ahead of sea trials for the French Navy. Naval Group picture.

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r/drydockporn • • 2d ago

Torpedo ram HMS Polyphemus in drydock in Malta, circa 1900. A Royal Navy protected torpedo boat designed to force its entry in enemy harbors, using the ram to cut through booms or as a secondary weapon.

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355 Upvotes

r/drydockporn • • 4d ago

[Album] Decommissioned Royal Netherlands Navy Walrus-class lead boat HNLMS Walrus (S-802) leaving Den Helder base to the scrapyard on October 12, 2026 after 30 years service.

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137 Upvotes

r/drydockporn • • 6d ago

Construction progress on T-AO 213, the future USNS Harriet Tubman, a John Lewis-class replenishment oiler. NASSCO shipyard San Diego, California. Oct 9, 2026 [2048 x 1535]

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196 Upvotes

r/drydockporn • • 8d ago

USS Portland (CA 33) in the Cockatoo Drydock, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, circa late 1942, while under repair for torpedo damage received in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 13 November 1942.

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208 Upvotes

r/drydockporn • • 8d ago

USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) in dry dock at Navantia Shipyard in Cadiz, Spain. Oct 7, 2026 [6048 x 4024]

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296 Upvotes

r/drydockporn • • 9d ago

USS West Virginia (BB-48) entering ABSD-1 Floating Dry Dock at Espiritu Santo in November 1944 to repair her damaged propellers and hull after the Battle of Surigao Strait and Philippines Campaign. [Album]

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r/drydockporn • • 9d ago

USS West Virginia (BB-48) entering ABSD-1 Floating Dry Dock at Espiritu Santo in November 1944 to repair her damaged propellers and hull after the Battle of Surigao Strait and Philippines Campaign.

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Thanks to u/ResearcherAtLarge for the photos


r/drydockporn • • 10d ago

British nuclear attack submarine HMS Swiftsure undergoing dismantling at Rosyth Dockyard, Scotland.

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510 Upvotes

r/drydockporn • • 16d ago

USCGC Eagle In Dry Dock [5510x6888]

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266 Upvotes

r/drydockporn • • 18d ago

Towboats MUSCATINE and LE CLAIRE in dry dock, Keokuk, Iowa, 1919

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100 Upvotes

r/drydockporn • • 23d ago

Royal Navy dreadnought HMS Erin in a floating drydock, most likely Invergordon, Scotland, September 1915.

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380 Upvotes

r/drydockporn • • 26d ago

USS Stockdale (DDG-106) in BAE Systems San Diego’s Pride of California dry dock during a Docking Selected Restricted Availability. August, 2026 [1975 x 1803]

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761 Upvotes

r/drydockporn • • 27d ago

A Royal Canadian Navy Flower-class corvette undergoing maintenance and hull work whilst in drydock. Library and Archives Canada Photo. Date unknown. [1251 × 981]

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168 Upvotes

r/drydockporn • • 29d ago

French ironclad Dévastation in drydock during the 1899-1902 period as part of an extensive modernization.

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257 Upvotes

r/drydockporn • • 29d ago

USS Oakland (LCS 24) enters the drydock at Austal USA's San Diego yard for a $10.8 million U.S. Navy maintenance contract. [2048 x 1537]

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175 Upvotes

r/drydockporn • • Sep 15 '26

Future USS Arizona (SSGN 803) Virginia-class Block V submarine Section 2B/5 moving from Quonset Point to Groton - marking the largest Virginia-class shipment ever transported at 184 feet and featuring the first ever Virginia Payload Module (VPM).

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362 Upvotes

uture USS Arizona (SSGN 803) Virginia-class Block V submarine Section 2B/5 moving from Quonset Point to Groton - marking the largest Virginia-class shipment ever transported at 184 feet and featuring the first ever Virginia Payload Module (VPM). Arizona, the first submarine to incorporate VPM, will be about 460 feet long once complete - posted September 14, 2026 by General Dynamics Electric Boat


r/drydockporn • • Sep 14 '26

Austal USA has a new, fully certified and operational dry dock optimized for small surface combatants (LCS, Coast Guard Cutters, etc.) at their San Diego, California yard. [2048 x 1594]

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278 Upvotes

r/drydockporn • • Sep 11 '26

Former HMCS Brandon MM170 at Point Hope Maritime Marine, Victoria BC[4000x1848]

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53 Upvotes

r/drydockporn • • Sep 04 '26

Finnish shipyard Meyer Turku with a Royal Caribbean ship, August 2025.

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367 Upvotes

r/drydockporn • • Sep 01 '26

USN battleship USS Iowa in ABSD-2 floating dry dock at Manus, Admirality Islands, on 28 December 1944

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630 Upvotes

r/drydockporn • • Sep 01 '26

USS California (BB-44) showing the collision damage in ABSD-1 Floating Dry Dock at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, between September 1st and 10th, 1944.

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Seven crewmen aboard California were killed in the accident. The repair ship USS Briareus (AR-12) can be seen in the first two pictures.

Note the tracked crane labeled "USS ABSD-1" in the last two pictures.

Thanks to u/ResearcherAtLarge for the photos.

The close-up damage picture is from Navsource.

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r/drydockporn • • Aug 30 '26

USS California (BB-44) entering ABSD-1 on August 25, 1944.

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Note ABSD-1 Camp on Aese Island in the background on the first two pictures.

The next few pictures will be of the damaged done by the collision with USS Tennessee (BB-43).

Thanks to u/ResearcherAtLarge for the photos.

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r/drydockporn • • Aug 28 '26

Ss bjorn west, (the former hnoms tyr) at the drydock in Kristiansand to restore her in her 1940 configuration and preserve her as a museum ship [1536x1151]

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82 Upvotes

r/drydockporn • • Aug 26 '26

HMS Sans Pareil shortly before her launch on 9-May-1887. She was a Royal Navy Victoria class battleship with only 2 units built.

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364 Upvotes