USS Webster (ARV-2) was a Chourre-class aircraft repair ship aircraft repair ship that saw service in the United States Navy during World War II.
USS Webster moored pierside at Bethlehem Key Highway Shipyard and Fort McHenry, Baltimore, MD., circa March 1945.
Aircraft repair ship is a naval auxiliary ship designed to provide maintenance support to aircraft. Aircraft repair ships provide similar services to seaplane tenders, that also cared for the crew. Aircraft repair ships had their own stores of spare parts, like a depot ship. Aircraft repair ships had repair personnel and equipment to repair failures or battle damage on aircraft. Aircraft repair ship also did regular aircraft maintenance.
USS Chloris, an aircraft repair ship
USS Chourre, aircraft repair ship
The Liberty ship Rebecca Lukens, part of U.S. Army's Operation Ivory Soap, was converted into a floating machine shop, repair, and maintenance depot and rechristened as the Maj Gen Herbert A Dargue
Boeing B-29 Superfortress in flight