Freeware (2) CFS2 USN "AFDB" floating docks, one empty, one with Victory ship under repair. Multi LOD, includes DPs.  Model, paint, DP and config by Psullykeys. crane substructure modelled by COLLIN and used with permission.  

Instructions:  Place both in the CFS2/Ships folder.  May be used as infastructure/ship or ship, but DP is set for 0 mph.      

A total of 8 AFDB's were built.  The first 2 consisted of 10 sections.Once hooked together the ten sections formed a drydock whose dimemensions were:
Displacement: 38,500 tons
Length: 927' 
Beam: 256
Draft: 9"(light), 78' (flooded)
Height: 28' (keel to well deck)
Inside width: 133' 7"
Lifting capacity: 90,000 tons
Complement: 690
Armament: 20 X 1  20mmAA (modelled with 10)

AFDBs 3-6 were 9 or 10 sections each. 	

History: ( Information from Department of the Navy)

# AFDB-1 Class Large Auxiliary (10-section, non-self-propelled) Floating Dry Dock: Constructed in sections during 1942 and 1943 at Everett Shipbuilding Co., Everett, WA., the Chicago Bridge & Iron Co., Eureka, CA., the Pollack-Stockton Shipbuilding Co., Stockton, CA.., and Chicago Bridge & Iron Co., Morgan City, LA.
# Commissioned, USS ABSD-1, 10 May 1943, at Everett, WA., CAPT.. A.R. Mack, USN, in command
# During World War II ABSD-1 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater
# ABSD-1 was towed to Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides and assembled for service in World War II
# Disassembled and towed to Manicani Bay, P.I. and reassembled for service by September 1945
# Decommissioned on 31 May 1946, in the Philippines
# Redesigned AFDB-1 in August 1946
# Disassembled and towed to Pearl Harbor for lay up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet
# Recommissioned, 2 June 1951, at Pearl Harbor, HI.
# Towed by sections to Orote, Guam, Marianas Islands, reassembled and ready for duty in March 1952
# Decommissioned, 1 November 1956, at Apra Harbor, Guam, Marianas Islands
# Five sections towed to Subic Bay, P.I. reassembled and place in service 17 November 1970
# Named Artisan, 7 June 1979
# Placed out of service and struck from the Naval Register in October 1986
# Reinstated in the Naval Register in March 1987 


Acknowledgements: Special thanks to Collin, for his help with FSDS. Also Tango Romeo, Simonu, Crashaz and Good2be for some shipbuilding insights. I receive great support from the dirty dozen!

Legal:  Freeware, may not be included in any payware without written permission of the author.  If used in freeware, please acknowledge author. I'm not responsible for difficulties with your computer due to the use of this freeware.

Enjoy!

Psullykeys 06/11/2010