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USS Pampanito Dry Dock 2016

For the fifth time in her life as a museum ship, USS Pampanito was towed to a shipyard and raised out of the water in a dry dock for repairs. She was at the yard from September 17 to November 12, 2016. This was the most successful dry docking of Pampanito to date as measured by the quantity and quality of work performed.

When we left our berth at Pier 45 in San Francisco, we projected six weeks of work with a management reserve for weather and unplanned delays. Pampanito was away from its home port berth for a total of eight weeks, and closed to the public for nine weeks.

Our Association conducted a successful fundraising campaign and the dry dock expenses were covered as follows: 70% in cash donations and grants, 15% savings, and 15% in-kind donations.

We accomplished most of our task list items, did more steel repair than expected, repaired steel in areas that has been deferred during at least four previous museum ship dry dockings, and we were pleased with the quality of the work performed.

However, there is still some important deferred projects for our next dry docking: a need to blast the entire hull to bare metal, additional steel repairs, and other smaller, but important projects.

• We have 250 photos in the drydocking blog posts.
• There are panographic views in the drydock from under the after torpedo room, and under the forward torpedo room.
With the help of Autodesk, Topcon, 3D Robotics, Cyark, and OpenHeritage3D we created 3D scans of the boat in drydock that can be downloaded https://openheritage3d.org/project.php?id=qdpd-2250
• Lessons learned

This very successful drydocking was make possible because of the generosity of many cash and in-kind (product and services) donors.

THANK YOU CASH DONORS:

THANK YOU IN-KIND DONORS:

Special thanks to the Port of San Francisco for performing safety repairs to Pier 45 while we were in drydock.