A floating dock could have served as an assembly platform for very large ships. Sections could be built separately, floated into the dock, lifted into alignment, and joined there. This was a technically plausible option, though the Royal Navy never adopted it in practice. The thought experiment shows how mobile infrastructure might relieve some limits imposed by fixed building slips and yards.
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A floating dock could become a building platform
Floating-dock assembly was a plausible but unused way to build very large ships from separately fabricated sections.