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AH-12 / APH-112 Haven

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
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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

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    Arneb 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
    Haven 56k Haven (AH-12), date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo
    Naval Hospital Corps School Web Site
    Haven 69k Haven (AH-12), date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo
    US Navy Hospital Ships Web Site
    Haven 42k Haven (AH-12), date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo
    Hyperwar US Navy in WWII Web Site
    Haven 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
    Haven 122k Haven (AH-12) pierside Nagasaki, Japan, circa 11 September 1945. Russ Padden from the USS Lanier cruise book
    Haven 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
    Haven 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
    Haven 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
    Haven 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.
    Haven 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.
    Haven 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.
    Haven 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
    Haven 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
    Haven 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
    Haven 133k Haven (AH-12), date and place unknown.
    Capt Jerry Mason, USN Ret
    Haven 96k Haven (AH-12) moored at pier 7, Naval Station Long Beach, CA., 1955 Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.

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