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AH-2 Solace

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row- Spanish Campaign Medal - Philippines Campaign Medal - China Relief Expedition Medal
Bottom Row - Mexican Service Medal - Dominican Campaign Medal - World War I Victory Medal
Solace Class Hospital Ship:
  • Laid down in 1896 as SS Creole at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, VA.
  • Acquired by the US Navy from her owners, Cromwell Steamship Lines, 7 April 1898
  • Commissioned USS Solace, 14 April 1898, CDR. A. Dunlap in command
  • Decommissioned, 12 October 1905 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.
  • Recommissioned, 3 June 1908
  • Decommissioned, 14 April 1909, at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, S.C.
  • Recommissioned, 20 November 1909
  • Designated Hospital Ship (AH-2), 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned, 20 July 1921, at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Laid up in reserve at, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register 6 August 1930
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, MD., 6 November 1930
    Specifications:
    Displacement 5,700 t.
    Length 377'
    Beam 44'
    Draft 22'
    Speed 15 kts.
    Complement 270
    Armament none
    Propulsion vertical triple expansion engine, single screw, 3,200 hp
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    Ajax 83k Scindia and Solace (1898-1930), [with white hull,] at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., circa 1899. Ranger (1873-1940) is moored in mid-channel, at the far left.
    US Navy photo # NH 71719 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, courtesy San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, CA.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Solace 84k Solace off Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., 1 July 1899.
    US Navy photo # NH 43624, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, courtesy Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, USN(MC) collection.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Solace 27k Solace at anchor, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Naval Hospital Corps School Web Site
    Solace 50k Solace underway, date and place unknown. .
    Solace 66k Solace underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, March 1986    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Solace 71k Solace at anchor, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Ric Hedman
    Solace 86k Solace at anchor, circa 1919, location unknown. Robert Hurst
    Solace 148k Lifting a patient aboard Solace from one of the ships small boats, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Ric Hedman
    Solace 84k The main hospital ward aboard Solace. It could hold up to 68 patients and the surgical ward could hold up to 76. There were 3 isolation wards on the aft deck.
    US Navy photo.    		 Ric Hedman
    Solace 100k Solace ships laboratory. The latest in medical and sanitary technology was used aboard.
    US Navy photo.    		 Ric Hedman
    Solace 119k Solace dispensary and medical storeroom. The ship also had a diet kitchen with all electrical appliances and on board ice making plant.
    US Navy photo.    		 Ric Hedman
    Solace 109k Solace operating theater that handled the dental, eye, ear and throat issues.
    US Navy photo.    		 Ric Hedman
    R-26 216k Solace (AH-2) (white hull) is among the laid up ships in the background in the upper right of this photo of R-26 (SS-103) getting ready to submerge at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, September 22, 1923.
    US Navy photo # 19-N-10578 a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 Daniel Dunham
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    Not Applicable to this Ship
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    Spanish American War Centennial Web Site - Hospital Ship Solace
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