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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

AH-12 / APH-112 Haven

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Kilo - Delta - Kilo

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
Second Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal
Third Row - Korean Service Medal (9) - United Nations Service Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal (retroactive)

Haven Class Hospital Ship:

Laid down as Marine Hawk. a Maritime Commission type (C4-S-BB2), hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC 743), at Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Chester, PA.

Launched, 24 June 1944

Acquired by the Navy from the Maritime Commission, 19 June 1944

Converted to a Hospital Ship at Todd-Erie Basin Shipyard, Inc., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Commissioned USS Haven (AH-12), 5 May 1945, CAPT. T. T. Patterson in command

Reclassified Evacuation Transport (APH-112), 12 June 1946

Reclassified Hospital Ship (AH-12) in October 1946

Decommissioned, 1 July 1947, at San Diego, CA.

Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group

Recommissioned, 15 September 1950

During the Korean War Haven (AH-12) participated during the following campaigns:

**Korean War Campaigns**
Campaigns and Dates	Campaigns and Dates
North Korean Aggression 17 October to 2 November 1950	Second Korean Winter 30 January to 20 March 1952 1 to 30 April 1952
Communist China Aggression 3 November 1959 to 9 January 1951	Korean Defense Summer-Fall 1952 1 May to 28 June 1952 19 July to 24 August 1952
First UN Counter Offensive 5 February to 2 April 1951	Third Korean Winter 10 February to 6 April 1953 26 to 30 April 1953
Communist China Spring Offensive 26 April to 8 July 1951	Korea Summer-Fall 1953 1 May to 17 June 1953 9 to 27 July 1953
UN Summer-Fall Offensive 9 July to 22 August 1951 9 September to 7 October 1951	.

Decommissioned, 30 June 1957, at Long Beach, CA. and placed in service at Long Beach Naval Station

Placed out of service and struck from the Naval Register, 1 March 1967

Transferred to the Maritime Commission for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Haven received nine battle stars for Korean War service

Specifications:
Displacement 11,141t(lt).15,000 t.(fl)
Length 520'
Beam 71' 6"
Draft 23' 6"
Speed 17.5 kts.
Complement 564
Patient Capacity 800
Armament none
Propulsion geared turbine, single screw

Size	Image Description	Source
300k	Haven (AH-12) at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 7 February 1946. Arneb (AKA-56) is in the foreground. Mare Island Naval Shipyard photo # 557-46, 2/7/46	Darryl Baker
56k	Haven (AH-12), date and place unknown. US Navy photo	Naval Hospital Corps School Web Site
69k	Haven (AH-12), date and place unknown. US Navy photo	US Navy Hospital Ships Web Site
42k	Haven (AH-12), date and place unknown. US Navy photo	Hyperwar US Navy in WWII Web Site
107k	Haven (AH-12) pierside Nagasaki, Japan to take aboard liberated ex allied prisoners of war, some of whom were suffering from radiation exposure, circa 11 September 1945.	Russ Padden from the USS Lanier cruise book
122k	Haven (AH-12) pierside Nagasaki, Japan, circa 11 September 1945.	Russ Padden from the USS Lanier cruise book
109k	Haven (AH-12) underway between 1946 and 1952. Note the postwar hospital ship markings consisting of three red crosses connected by a horizontal bar. US Navy photo # NH 98791, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center
72k	Haven (AH-12) at Pearl Harbor, 9 October 1950, soon after reactivation for the Korean War. US Navy photo # NH 98792, by JO3 T.H. Shole, USN, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center
61k	Haven (AH-12) at anchor off Inchon, South Korea, 15 December 1950. Photographed by C. K. Rose, AF2. US Navy photo # NH 98794, by AF2 C.K. Rose, USN, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center
58k	Haven (AH-12) at anchored off Korea in 1952. *Haven* was equipped with specially constructed and moored platforms designed to receive wounded personnel via helicopter. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, October 1952.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
137k	Haven (AH-12) anchored at Inchon, Korea in 1952 with newly installed pontoon landing floats. US Navy photo from the collection of CDR Nancy Crosby, NC, USN, Ret., "Navy Medicine" magazine, March-April 2002.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
49k	Haven (AH-12) receiving wounded from the front lines, while anchored off Inchon, South Korea, in August 1952. Note the Marine HRS-1 helicopter approaching the landing float to starboard. A second float was moored to port. These were replaced in late 1952 by a helo deck on the fantail. US Navy photo # NH 98793, by R. J. Franks, CCGT-3702, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center.
100k	Haven (AH-12) underway circa 1953. Note the new helicopter deck on the fantail. Courtesy of The Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia. Ted Stone collection. US Navy Photo # 98795 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center
84k	Haven (AH-12) anchored in Inchon harbor, Korea, 14 June 1953. Photographed by PHAN L.R. Dylina. US Navy Photo # K-16519, now in the collections of the US National Archives	US Naval Historical Center
57k	Haven (AH-12) underway, 19 January 1954. Note the new hospital ship markings, without horizontal bars between the three red crosses. US Navy Photo # 98796 by Dick Bavior, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center
133k	Haven (AH-12), date and place unknown.	Capt Jerry Mason, USN Ret
96k	Haven (AH-12) moored at pier 7, Naval Station Long Beach, CA., 1955	Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.