Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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What did a repair ship look like inside?

Repair ships were packed with machine and craft workshops resembling the specialist spaces inside a large cruiser, repeated across much more of the hull.

HMS BelfastNaval WorkshopsRepair ShipsUSS Medusa
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Question

What did the inside of a repair ship look like?

Short answer

It contained many machinery and craft workshops like those inside HMS Belfast, but repeated on the scale of an entire support ship.

Notes

USS Medusa can be pictured as a hull filled with workshop spaces comparable to the machinery shops aboard HMS Belfast. The individual rooms were ordinary specialist workspaces. Their number and range of trades distinguished the repair ship. The comparison turns an unfamiliar auxiliary into the workshop capacity of a large warship scaled across most of a hull.