Vulcan and her sisters served as floating machine shops and foundries for the U.S. Navy. These repair ships provided essential support while attracting little popular attention. Ice-cream ships, Liberty and Victory ships, and oilers are more familiar examples of naval auxiliaries, leaving the ships that supplied machining capacity easy to overlook.
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Vulcan and the repair ships that carried workshops with the fleet
Vulcan and her sister repair ships supplied machine shops and foundries that were essential to fleet support but attracted little popular attention.