1951 and wrecked while under tow to Philippines in 1972. "Half Rufus" was the bow of the Liberty ship which ran aground on Moreton Island, Queensland, Australia. The ship had broken in two with the bow salvaged by the Commonwealth Marine Salvage Board, taken over by the U.S. Army Small Ships Section and equipped with vertical boiler for power, a machine shop used for repairing vessels and bunkers for coal and fuel oil for refueling them. Given the number S-129 and dubbed "Half Rufus" the salvaged bow was towed to Milne Bay, arriving 21 June 1944, and then to Finschhafen where repair equipment was transferred to a barge in April 1945 and the bow section then used as a coal hulk. Depot Ship Seven cargo vessels were converted to spare parts depot ships to facilitate the maintenance of military equipment in oversea areas. The 20 dry cargo barges originally intended for bauxite were taken by the Army and 17 were used in the southwest Pacific for storehouses. Of the 24 steam cargo concrete vessels, 17 were converted by the Army into floating storehouses, 5 were used by the Army as training ships and 2 found an honorable end when sunk to form part of the breakwater protecting the American landing in Normandy at Omaha beach.A. D. Kahn, "Concrete Ship and Barge Program, 1941-1944"Ships for victory: a history of shipbuilding under the U.S. Maritime Commission in World War II Concrete ship 265-foot BCL (barge, concrete, large) Type B Concrete Barge 5 Builders of Concrete Ships Design MC B7-D1, 2 ships for US Army World War II in the Pacific Concrete Ships Concrete Ship hulks 22 covered lighters (Army floating stores warehouse or BCL), 265 feet, used by Army as floating warehouses. 3 lighters used as refrigerated warehouses. 2 Army repair ships (Army repair ship or FMS). Floating Marine Repair Shop Small Ships The Army had its own program for small boat construction and directly procured vessels and water craft that were under 200 feet or under 1,000 gross tons. Army F-ships (100-dwt) were little freighters built on the lines of a Dutch wooden shoe and had a capacity of about 100 tons with a maximum speed of 8 knots. During the war these little ships plied back and forth between Navy PT boat bases, Crash Rescue Boat bases, and Engineer Special Brigade bases in the Pacific for the purpose of transporting