graving dock

It begins at night, with the boat being towed in under spotlights to a “graving dock,” from which water is then pumped out.

Through that window he could watch his Western Star graving in the graving dock.

New ships - including the Malaspina and other mainline Alaska ferries - were first built in a graving dock, a pit dug in the earth with doors at one end that opened to the ocean.

The graving docks occupy the dug-out site of the former New Mole Parade.

The largest ships can enter the harbour, which has a minimum depth of 30 ft.; it has two dry docks, a graving dock and a floating dry dock.