USS AFDM-2

USS "AFDM-2" (YFD-4) is an medium auxiliary floating drydock built in Mobile, Alabama by the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company for the U.S. Navy. Originally named USS "YFD-4", Yard Floating Dock-4, she operated by Todd Shipyards at New Orleans, Louisiana for the repair of US ships during World War II. "YFD-4" was renamed an Auxiliary Floating Dock Medium "AFDM-2" in 1945 after the war. USS "AFDM-2" was tall, wide, length of (all three section connected), and has a displacement of 6,360 tons. AFDM-2 could lift capacity 9,000 tons and had two service cranes to lift material and parts for removing damage parts and the installation of new parts. The floating drydock can repair ships up to a beam of , as she is 90 feet wide between the wing walls. Ballast pontoons tanks are flooded with water to submerge or pumped dry to raise the ship. Submerged she can load a ship with a draft up to .
Hurricane Betsy.
Hurricane Betsy, Category 4, sank and damaged USS "AFDM-2" on 9 September 1965. USS "AFDM-2" was at Todd Shipyards on the west side of the Mississippi River in Algiers, New Orleans. "AFDM-2" had the water pumped out of her pontoon tanks and was raised for repair. The salvage ships MS "Cable" and and , an "Achomawi-class" fleet ocean tug, helped in the recovery of "AFDM-2". Due to the large size of "AFDM-2" two rescue and salvage ships, and arrived with three special support barges to help in the salvage. Land-based winches were also used in the recovery. On 25 August 1966 tugs returned "AFDM-2" to Todd Shipyards, eleven months after her sinking. Repairs where completed and she was put back in service. Divers had to repair more than 100 holes in "AFDM-2" to float her again.
Post US Navy use.
On 16 May 1995 she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Beaumont, Texas. On 11 February 1999 she was reactivated and transferred to the Government of the Dominican Republic. She was later sold to Gulf Copper & Manufacturing Corpation at Port Arthur, Texas and renamed "Mr. Morris". In 2013 , a landing ship, tank, now a museum ship, was repaired in "AFDM-2".