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Giant Floating Victorian Drydock

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by Luc

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The rigging on the surrounding ships is nonsensical. AI generated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Admiralty_floating_doc...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/HMS_Psyc...

by terhechte

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There's a couple of great images in this article:
https://nmb.bm/history/look-down-look-down/

by barryp

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The US Navy's WW II floating drydocks in the Pacific were wild - whole battleships and aircraft carriers lifted up, fixed, and sent back out.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/the-massive-fl...

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by jukujala

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