It takes 2 days for the US Navy to get its oldest deployable warship out to sea — watch how it happens

A
screenshot of the USS Blue Ridge in dry dock at its home base in
Yokosuka, Japan.
Department of
Defense

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  The US Department of Defense released footage showing
  the USS Blue Ridge command ship leaving dry dock in Yokosuka,
  Japan.
  


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  Dry dock is an area where water can be drained so as to
  allow maintenance, construction, and cleaning of a ship or
  other water vessel.
  


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  It takes the USS Blue Ridge two days to get out of dry
  dock.
  

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The USS Blue Ridge is the lead ship of her class and
the oldest deployable warship in the US Navy. 

Assigned to the United States Seventh Fleet based
in Yokosuka, Japan, the Blue Ridge is one of the US
Navy's two command ships.

When the US Navy's ships are in port and undergoing
maintenance, they are put in dry dock — a narrow basin that a
ship can sail into and then have all of the water in it drained.
This enables workers to access the ships underside, and enable
stability during construction and upgrading operations.

Footage released by the Department of Defense shows that it
takes the USS Blue Ridge two days to get out of dry dock.

See the time-lapse video here:

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