Aristaeus-class repair ship

Thirteen ships was converted into a repair ship throughout the later stages of World War II. The ships were converted from the LST-1, LST-491 and LST-542 classes. After the war, few ships were then sold to foreign countries such as Brazil, Greece, Norway and West Germany.^{[citation needed]}

The ship's hull remained nearly the same but with new equipments to carry out her purpose now placed on deck alongside several cranes.^{[citation needed]} The ships' armament had been slightly changed and relocated to make way for the ships' equipments.^{[citation needed]} All ships served in the Pacific Theater until the end of the war with no ships lost in combat.^{[citation needed]}

MV Gordon Jensen (ex-USS Zeus) is still active to this day, serving as a transport and berthing vessel for SNOPAC Products Inc. processing crews in Alaska.^[1]

ARB-13 (ex-USS LST-50) was redesignated as a repair ship on 14 November 1952. She was sold to Norway as HNoMS Ellida (A534) and later sold to Greece as Sakipis (A329).^{[citation needed]}