The Chourre-class aircraft repair ship was a class of repair ships that were operated by the United States Navy during World War II.
Design
Chourre-class was the first ship class to be designated as aircraft repair ships in the Navy. The class consists of two ships converted from the EC2-S-C1, also known as Liberty ships.
The ships were long overall ( between perpendiculars, with a beam of . She had a depth of and a draft of . She was assessed at , , .
She was powered by a triple expansion steam engine, which had cylinders of , and diameter by stroke. The engine was built by the Babcock & Wilcox. It drove a single screw propeller, which could propel the ship at .
They served well throughout the war without a ship being lost to enemy action. After the war, they were decommissioned but only Chourre was reactive to take part in the Korean War.
Ships in the class +Chourre classNameBuilderLaid DownLaunchedCommissionedDecommissionedFateARV-1ChourreBethlehem Fairfield Shipyard20 April 194422 May 19447 December 194413 September 1955Scrapped, 5 February 1971ARV-2Webster1 July 19445 August 194415 May 19458 June 1946Sunk as artificial reef, 1977
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