Dry Dock 12 Flooded at Newport News Shipbuilding 

Can anyone tell me how thick the walls and floors of the Dry Dock are? I'm guessing they would have to be pretty darn strong to take the weight of not only the water it holds back, but also the weight of the ship being built inside it :-)

The old way was the best. Launch down the slipway!

Dear Robo; The strength of dry docks walls and bottom, are as following:On bottom, we have a longitudinal strong beam with 2 meters wide. The permissible load cargo on it is abt. 250 or 300 tons/meter. Out side of this beam, the load cargo support is 35 or 40 tons/meter.The big ships as a weigth distribution no more than 100tons/meter,on midle part. On after part, near to engine room the weigth distribution is no more than 200 tons/meter. For docking, the berth is preparing in order to receive the ship with folloing transverse weigth distribution: 50% of the ship weigth will be support on longitudinal beam, 25%, will be support on dock bottom distribuited for both sides; port and starboard.Sory, for my bad english. I´m Portuguese and i live in Portugal/Europe.

imagine that, water is the only thing on earth that can lift an aircraft carrier. amazing.

Whatever floats your boat.

only two milestones left Launch (if your on schedule Veterans Day ) and smashing the bottle on the hull. (also to occur on Veterans Day if your on schedule)

Next time they should invite all of the politicians to come down from DC and have them stand at the bottom of the dry dock.

Looks like that's going to take a while.

ok, so I have spent several hours underneath and in the “2nd skin” of CVN-70, but what is inside that “Rudolph Red” bulbous nose?

Regarding the thick of walls: The longitudinal beam as 1 meter thick. The bottom dock as no more than 300 or 500 milimeters. The walls thick is no more than 1 meter.

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