USS Steadfast and
USS Kinkaid
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Steadfast |
Namesake | Steadfast |
Builder | Pollock Shipbuilding Co. |
Laid down | 1945 |
Acquired | 1 July 1945 |
Commissioned | 1945 |
Decommissioned | 1998 |
Reclassified | AFDM-14, 1981 |
Stricken | 7 February 1999 |
Identification |
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Motto | Safety, Quality |
Honors and awards | See Awards |
Fate | Sold to BAE Systems |
Status | Operational in San Francisco, California |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | AFDM-14-class floating drydock |
Displacement |
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Length | 528 ft 0 in (160.93 m) |
Beam | 118 ft 0 in (35.97 m) |
Draft | 5 ft (1.5 m) |
Installed power | 1,600 hp (1,193 kW) |
Speed | 22.9 knots (42.4 km/h; 26.4 mph) |
Complement | 3 officers, 113 enlisted |
USS Steadfast (AFDM-14) (former YFD-71) is a AFDM-14-class floating dry dock built in 1945 and operated by the United States Navy. [1]
YFD-71 was built by the Pollock Shipbuilding Co., in Stockton, California in 1945. She would be commissioned later in 1945 after her delivery to the Navy on 1 July. [1]
In 1981, the dry dock was re-designated as AFDM-14. She would be given the name Steadfast later in 1984. [2] On 1 April 1986, USS Tuscaloosa (LST-1187) was seen dry docked inside Steadfast at National Steel and Shipbuilding Company. [3] In February 1987, USS Bagley (FF-1069) traveled to Concord Naval Weapons Station where she unloaded ammunition before beginning a restricted availability at San Diego on the 16th. The repair period lasted until early summer and included a seven-week drydocking in Steadfast that occupied most of April and all of May. [4]
In January 1992, USS Kinkaid (DD-965) was dry docked inside Steadfast. [5] On 15 March 1994, USS Chandler (DDG-996) began a six-month selected restricted availability at Continental Maritime in San Diego, which lasted from 15 March until 19 May in the floating dry dock Steadfast. [6] On 8 January 1996, Steadfast was dry docked at Long Beach Naval Shipyard. [7] Steadfast was decommissioned in 1998 and sold to BAE Systems Ship Repair San Francisco, renamed Eureka. [2] [8] Struck from the Naval Register on 7 February 1999. [1]
In 2009, SS Jeremiah O'Brien was dry docked inside Eureka at Pier 70. [9]
On 2 January 2017, the shipyard was sold to Puglia Engineering, Inc.. [10]