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Largest Dry Dock, Mumbai
September 28 , 2019
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- The Indian Navy has got its biggest dry dock located inside the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai.
- It can service India’s only aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya, weighing 44,500 tons and the first indigenous carrier Vikrant, being built in Kochi
- This is probably the only dry dock in the country that is surrounded by the sea from three sides.
- In a dry dock, water is drained out after a ship is brought in, to enable repair and inspection.
- Repairs which are not possible when the ship is in water, take place.
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- The Bombay Dockyard was established in 1732.
- The naval dockyard in Mumbai has three other dry docks — Bombay Dock, Duncan dock and Cruiser Graving Dock.
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