Seacraft Repair Ship Six ships, allocated by the War Shipping Administration, were converted to repair and spare parts ships. Five, from to in length, were built on the Great Lakes from 1901 to 1913. The sixth, James B. Houston (1900) at was the Army owned Kvichak which had grounded off Canada, slipped into of water and was then salvaged in 1941. All were U.S. Coast Guard-crewed with the Army in administrative and operational control as well as providing the repair detachments from the Army Marine Ship Repair Company (AMSR CO.). All served in the Southwest Pacific Area. Houston, which had first served in the Aleutians, was declared surplus while at Mariveles, Philippines and turned over to the Foreign Liquidation Commission in February 1946, reverted to U. S. Army Forces, Western Pacific (AFWESPAC) in April 1946, but was not used as a repair ship after being declared surplus. Army Marine Ship Repair Company (T/O & E 55-47): This is a mobile maintenance and repair unit capable of traveling from installation to installation in a theater to perform third and minor fourth echelon maintenance and repairs to small boats, harbor craft, floating equipment, and in some cases repairs to larger vessels. The company is equipped with an especially converted ship or barge, fully equipped with machine, electric, engine, wood-working, rigging and paint shops. See "The Forgotten Voyage of the USARS Duluth: Recalling a Coast Guard-Manned Vessel That Fell Through the Cracks of World War II History" for one of the few descriptions of these vessels in service. The embarked Army repair units, where noted below, are from Masterson": USARS James B. Houston (1900), part of 803d AMSR Co. USARS W. J. Conners (1901), 804th AMSR Co. USARS William F. Fitch (1902), first in SWPA, 801st AMSR Co. USARS Duluth (1903), 802d AMSR Co. USARS J. E. Gorman (1909), 803d AMSR Co. USARS J. M. Davis (1913), 805th AMSR Co. Other repair vessels Koondooloo 524 grt, X X : Acquired for Southwest Pacific Area permanent local fleet, Small Ship Section, a double ended vehicular ferry built in Scotland in 1924 for Sydney Ferries Limited and converted in 1937 into a show/excursion boat with dance floor and 1,700 passenger capacity. Converted by the Army from coal to oil and fitted with a 30-ton boom, Koondooloo (S-181) was used as a workboat in New Guinea servicing amphibious vehicles and vessels. Reconverted to a vehicular ferry