Depot ship
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A depot ship is an auxiliary ship used as a mobile or fixed base for submarines, destroyers, minesweepers, fast attack craft, landing craft, or other small ships with similarly limited space for maint
Submarine depot ship HMAS Platypus with a flotilla of submarines
Destroyer tender USS Altair moored in Pearl Harbor with destroyers on 8 February 1925.
Submarine depot ship HMS Maidstone with submarines alongside
Submarine tender USS Pelias with submarines alongside
Repair ship
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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
Depot ship
…a drinking water distillation unit, and a laundry require little more than medical and repair service from a depot ship. Depot ships are similar to repair ships, but provide a wider range of services to a smaller portion of the fleet. Depot ships undertake repair work for a flotilla of small warships, while…
USS Medusa was the first United States Navy ship built as a repair ship.
With a capable crew of qualified repairmen, USS Vulcan was kept in good repair for a long service life.
HMS Artifex
HMS Diligence