Norfolk Naval Shipyard

At Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Dry Dock 2 was first built of wood and completed in November 1887, then rebuilt with concrete in 1933; Dry Dock 3 was completed in November 1903; Dry Dock 4 opened on April 1, 1919, with the King and Queen of Belgium in attendance; Dry Dock 5 was never constructed; Dry Docks 6 and 7 both opened on October 31, 1919, having been built by the Fleet Emergency Corporation, part of the U.S. Shipping Board chartered by President Woodrow Wilson during World War I; and Dry Dock 8 opened in July 1942 with the keel-laying for the battleship Kentucky, which was never completed. The greatest number of vessels placed simultaneously in any dry dock was 14, when Dry Dock 4 held 10 submarines and 4 fleet targets in October 1920.

Portsmouth, Virginia · United States