The Happy Solution: A Short History of the Dewey Floating Dry Dock

Name: The Happy Solution: A Short History of the Dewey Floating Dry Dock
Author: Merle T. Cole
ISBN: 978B00A9PL593

Author Merle T. Cole

Publisher Calvert Marine Museum

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Author(s)Merle T. Cole

PublisherCalvert Marine Museum

ISBN / ASINB00A9PL59G

ISBN-13978B00A9PL593

MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷

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Softcover booklet by Calvert Marine Museum Press, c. 1988. Describes and illustrated a unique floating dry dock, the Dewey, built in Solomons MD in 1905. Largest in the world at the time, this floating dry dock named for Admiral Dewey was built for the US Navy and it tested the concept with two warships, the USS Colorado and the USS Iowa.