Repair ship

A repair ship is a naval auxiliary ship designed to provide maintenance support to warships. Repair ships provide similar services to destroyer, submarine and seaplane tenders or depot ships, but may offer a broader range of repair capability including equipment and personnel for repair of more significant machinery failures or battle damage.^[1]

The United States Navy became aware of the need for repair ships to maintain Asiatic Fleet ships stationed in the Philippines . Two colliers were converted to missing name and missing name in 1913 before the purpose-built missing name was completed at the Puget Sound Navy Yard in 1923.

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Internal combustion engine repair ships specialized in the maintenance and repair of gasoline engines and diesel engines. Commonly work was performed on PT boats, submarines, and many types of landing craft and boats at US Naval Advance Bases. Most were named after islands of the Philippines .^[6]

Luzon-class

• USS Oglala (ARG-1)
• USS Luzon (ARG-2)
• USS Mindanao (ARG-3)
• USS Tutuila (ARG-4)
• USS Oahu (ARG-5)
• USS Cebu (ARG-6)
• USS Culebra Island (ARG-7)
• USS Leyte (ARG-8), renamed USS Maui
• USS Mona Island (ARG-9)
• USS Palawan (ARG-10)
• USS Samar (ARG-11)
• USS Dumaran (ARG-14)
• USS Masbate (ARG-15), later ARV-2 aircraft repair ship
• USS Kermit Roosevelt (ARG-16)
• USS Hooper Island (ARG-17)
• USS Beaver (ARG-19), ex-AS-5
• USS Otus (ARG-20), ex-AS-20

Basilan class

• USS Basilan (ARG-12), ex-AG-68
• USS Burias (ARG-13), ex-AG-69

• USS Jason (ARH-1), later AR-8

Landing Craft Repair Ships were used to repair the thousands of Landing craft built for World War II.

Achelous-class repair ship

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• HMS Kelantan (F166)^[9]
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• HMS San Giorgio (formerly Italian cruiser San Giorgio)
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• HMS Wayland (F137)^[8]
• HMS Westernland (F87)^[10]

These Xanthus-class repair ships were built to Royal Navy specifications by Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard in 1944, but only the first two were temporarily loaned to the United Kingdom while the others were retained for use by the United States Navy:^[11]

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• AR-18 became HMS Diligence (F174)
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Japan found repair ships valuable for Pacific island bases. The pre-dreadnought battleship Asahi was modified and recommissioned as a repair ship in 1938. The 9,000-ton purpose-designed repair ship Akashi was launched in 1938 as the intended prototype for a class of five ships, but the remaining four ships were cancelled as other wartime shipbuilding projects assumed higher priority.^[12]

• Aircraft repair ship

• Lenton, H.T.; Colledge, J.J. (1964). British and Dominion Warships of World War II. Doubleday & Company. 
• Silverstone, Paul H. (1968). U.S. Warships of World War II. Doubleday & Company. 
• Watts, Anthony J. (1966). Japanese Warships of World War II. Doubleday & Company. 

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