USS Competent (AFDM-6)
{{Short description|AFDM-3-class dry dock of the United States Navy}}
{{other ships|USS Competent}}
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USS Competent (AFDM-6), (former YFD-62), was an AFDM-3-class floating dry dock built in 1943 and operated by the United States Navy.{{Cite web|date=6 October 2005|title=Competent (AFDM-6)|url=https://www.nvr.navy.mil/SHIPDETAILS/SHIPSDETAIL_AFDM_6.HTML|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161025180539/http://www.nvr.navy.mil/SHIPDETAILS/SHIPSDETAIL_AFDM_6.HTML|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 October 2016|access-date=8 February 2022|website=Naval Vessel Register}}
Construction and career
YFD-62 Auxiliary floating drydock was built at the Everett Pacific Shipbuilding Shipyard, in Everett, Washington in 1944. She was commissioned in June 1944.{{Cite web|title=Auxiliary Floating Dry Dock (ARD)|url=http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/28/2806.htm|access-date=2022-02-08|website=www.navsource.org}}
In 1945, the dry dock was re-designated as AFDM-6.
In 1968, USS Wandank (ATA-204) performed island survey duties in the Western Carolinas and subsequently helped to search for AFDM-6 which had broken loose from her civilian tow vessel.{{Cite web|title=Wandank II (ATA-204)|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/w/wandank-ii.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240604121632/https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/w/wandank-ii.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 June 2024|access-date=2022-02-08|website=NHHC|language=en-US}}
USS Carpenter (DD-825) while steaming towards Subic Bay that day, the crew discovered several leaks in the ship's hull. Moving immediately into dry dock AFDM-6 at Subic Bay, the rusted plating was repaired by work crews and Carpenter returned to Yankee Station on 5 November 1971.{{Cite web|title=Carpenter (DD-825)|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/c/carpenter.html|access-date=2022-02-08|website=NHHC|language=en-US}} In 1972, the USS Higbee (DDR-806) was dry docked after being the first ship to be bombed during the Vietnam War.{{Cite book|url=http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/department_arch.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130818125702/http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/department_arch.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 August 2013|title=U.S. Navy All Hands magazine|year=October 1972|pages=30}} From 14 to 22 August 1975, USS Bronstein (FF-1037) returned to Subic Bay to have a hole in her shaft repaired while on the blocks in AFDM-6.{{Cite web|title=Bronstein II (FF-1037)|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/b/bronstein-ii.html|access-date=2022-02-08|website=NHHC|language=en-US}} In 1979, she as given the name Competent.
On 16 February 1981, USS Barbel (SS-580) moved into Competent at Pearl Harbor for a two-week drydock period.{{Cite web|title=Barbel II (SS-580)|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/b/barbel-ii.html|access-date=2022-02-08|website=NHHC|language=en-US}} On 16 January 1984, USS Aspro (SSN-648) entered the floating drydock Competent for a restricted availability.{{Cite web|title=Aspro II (SSN-648)|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/a/aspro-ii.html|access-date=2022-02-08|website=NHHC|language=en-US}} USS Los Angeles (SSN-688) was dry docked from 9 May until 1 July 1986.{{Cite journal|date=1986|title=ANNUAL COMMAND HISTORY|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/nhhc/research/archives/command-operation-reports/ship-command-operation-reports/l/los-angeles-ssn-688-iv/1986.pdf|journal=Commanding Officer, USS LOS ANGELES (SSN 688)|pages=Encl (2)}} From 20 May until 24 June 1987, the USS Bremerton (SSN-698) underwent dry docking inside Competent.{{Cite journal|date=1987|title=COMMAND HISTORY (OPNAV5750-1)|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/nhhc/research/archives/command-operation-reports/ship-command-operation-reports/b/bremerton-ssn-698-ii/pdf/1987.pdf|journal=Commanding Officer, USS BREMERTON (SSN 698)|pages=Encl (2)}} On 1 March 1988, Los Angeles was again dry docked for Selected Restricted Availability and undocked on 11 May.{{Cite journal|date=1988|title=ANNUAL COMMAND HISTORY|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/nhhc/research/archives/command-operation-reports/ship-command-operation-reports/l/los-angeles-ssn-688-iv/1988.pdf|journal=Commanding Officer, USS LOS ANGELES (SSN 688)|pages=Encl (3)}}
Bremerton started the year 1995 in drydock aboard the Competent.{{Cite journal|title=COMMAND HISTORY (OPNAV 5750-1)|url=https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/nhhc/research/archives/command-operation-reports/ship-command-operation-reports/b/bremerton-ssn-698-ii/pdf/1995.pdf|journal=Commanding Officer, USS BREMERTON (SSN 698)|pages=Encl (3)}} She was decommissioned in August 1997 and later stricken from the Naval Register on 21 August. The dry dock was donated to a private company to be used in Kalaeloa. LAter sold to PT Arpeni Pratama Ocean Line to be operated in Batam, Indonesia.
Awards
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External links
- [http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/28/2806.htm NavSource: AFDM-6]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20161025180539/http://www.nvr.navy.mil/SHIPDETAILS/SHIPSDETAIL_AFDM_6.HTML Naval Vessel Register: Competent (AFDM-6)]
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