Marine Engineering Sciences

Tampa Bay Shipbuilding and Repair Co. Graving Dock Analysis

 

Tampa Bay Shipbuilding is a complete ship conversion, repair and modification facility in Tampa, Florida. The shipyard includes (4) graving docks with 28ft draft capabilities for ships up to 746ft in length, and 24ft draft for ships up to 907ft in length. Pfitzco, Inc. performed a general condition survey of the graving docks and used the data to analyze the �as is� capacity of each graving dock.