USS Endeavor (AFDL-1)
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=US Navy 061102-N-4238B-036 The crew of the auxiliary floating dry dock Dynamic (AFDL 6) prepares for an incoming craft.jpg |Ship caption=Sister ship of USS Endeavor AFDL-1, the USS Dynamic AFDL-6 }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United States |Ship flag= {{USN flag|1943}} |Ship name= USS Endeavor AFDL-1 |Ship namesake= |Ship ordered= |Ship builder= Chicago Bridge and Iron |Ship laid down= |Ship launched= |Ship acquired= September 1943 |Ship commissioned= September 1943 |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service=1943 |Ship out of service= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship honours= |Ship fate= Sold to Dominican Republic in 1986 |Ship status= In Active Service |Ship homeport= |Ship notes= Ship International Radio Callsign: NFKD |Ship badge= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= AFDL-1-Class |Ship displacement= 800 tons |Ship length= 200 feet |Ship beam= 64 feet (inside width 45 feet) |Ship draught= |Ship draft= {{cvt|3|ft|3|in}} (light), {{cvt|31|ft|4|in}} (flooded) |Ship propulsion= none - towed |Ship speed= |Ship range= |Ship complement= |Ship sensors= |Ship EW= |Ship armament= none |Ship armour= |Ship armor= |Ship aircraft= |Ship aircraft facilities= |Ship notes= Lifting Capacity: 1,900 tons }} |
USS Endeavor was a 200-foot AFDL-1 Class Small Auxiliary floating drydock in service with the United States Navy during World War II. Built and delivered by Chicago Bridge and Iron in Morgan City, Louisiana in September 1943, she entered service as USS AFD-1. She was redesignated AFDL-1 on 1 August 1946. In 1986, she was decommissioned, struck from the Naval Register and transferred to the Dominican Republic and redesignated DF-1. She is currently in Active Service as of 2017.[http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/28/2851.htm NavSource, USS Endeavor AFDL-1][https://web.archive.org/web/20161025202127/http://www.nvr.navy.mil/SHIPDETAILS/SHIPSDETAIL_AFDL_1.HTML US Navy, USS Endeavor AFDL-1]
It also shares the name with the Endeavour space shuttle, an orbital space vehicle used by NASA as an active participant in the construction of the International Space Station. Both vessels use the British English spelling of the word, rather than the American English form, in honor of the British HMS Endeavour, the ship of Captain James Cook on his first voyage of discovery (1768–1771).[http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/Endeavour.html John F. Kennedy Space Center – Space Shuttle Endeavour] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521101826/http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/endeavour.html |date=2011-05-21 }}. Pao.ksc.nasa.gov. Retrieved on 2012-05-20.
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- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD2rM4RjUEY Youtube, BATTLESHIP USS IDAHO REPAIRED AT ESPIRITU SANTO in 1944 in USS Artisan (ABSD-1)1]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_ZFNvypj2o Youtube, August 15, 1944 mighty battleship Idaho at ABSD-1]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ0SM159nE0 Youtube, Floating Dry Docks WWII]
- [https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/b/beans-bullets-black-oil.html US Navy, Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil, The Story of Fleet Logistics Afloat in the Pacific During World War II]
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Category:Floating drydocks of the United States Navy
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