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Name: HARWICH DOCK - AFD6
Type: Floating Dry Dock
Laid down 29/05/1911
Launched: 06/12/1911
Completed: 22/02/1912
Builder: Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Co Ltd
Yard: Wallsend Yard
Yard Number: 893
Dimensions: 2000tons lift, 280.0 x 75.0 x 16.0ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: None
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
1912 British Royal Navy
1946 Jonason Bray, Stockholm
No further history known
Comments: To be based at Harwich for destroyers, able to lift two at a time
Dimensions: overall length, width between walls & max internal draft
Also known as the Lapwell Dock
Left the Tyne for Harwich towed by tugs GREAT EMPEROR & NESTOR
08/1921: Moved to Sheerness Dockyard
1946: Towed to Stockholm by ZWARTE ZEE
28/08/1946: Arrived at Stockholm
Believed to have been lengthened in the 1950s
At Ekensberg shipyard, Sweden, until around 1970


Above photo is courtesy of the Mersea Museum

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