The floating hotels (YRBMs / APLs) have a fully functoning Galley (Messing), sleeping areas (Bething), as well as office spaces.

The repair / Upgrades offten undergo in industrial areas, crains, forklifts, smoke, dust, welding, contracters all onboard a sailor's home. This category is for ships designed, built, or operated by the United States during the Vietnam War (approximately 19591975). These Repair / Upgrades often displace the ship's crews (as for some this is their home). These vessels bore the hull classification symbol YRBM.Ī large number have survived, and are being maintained, to service as floating hotels for US Navy ships undergoing repair / upgrades. It has a reinforced bow for ocean towing.

All utilities are supplied from the pier. It is fitted with a storeroom and workshops. They contain limited shop facilities to permit ship's force repair work. Yard Repair Berthing and Messing were large unpropelled barges used by the ' Brown Water Navy' of the US during the Vietnam War, as bases for specialized river boats.

Us navy berthing ships vietnam war