Delta-Class Repair Ships

The Delta class were wartime-emergency repair ships converted from C3-class merchant hulls to meet the Navy's desperate need for forward repair capability. Displacing approximately 14,500 tons, these four ships carried extensive machine shops and repair facilities that allowed them to function as floating shipyards at advanced anchorages across the Pacific. While not as large or capable as the purpose-built Vulcan class, the Delta-class ships were essential to sustaining the tempo of offensive operations during the island-hopping campaigns of 1943-1945.