Over the years, Bath Iron Works has had three floating dry docks. The first was acquired from the GD Quincy Shipyard in 1975 and was a wooden dock built in 1916-1918. The second floating dry dock which was acquired in 1981-1982 for BIW Portland Ship Repair Co., was a surplus WWII dock bought by the state of Maine from the U.S. Government and leased to BIW. The final floating dry dock, which we still own today, is the one on the Land Level Transfer Facility. It was built in China and arrived at BIW in February 2001.
