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AH-14 / APH-114 Tranquillity

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Haven Class Hospital Ship
  • Laid down, 20 August 1943, as SS Marine Dolphin, a Maritime Commission type (C4-S-B2) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 745) at Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Chester, PA.
  • Launched, 25 July 1944
  • Acquired by the Navy from the Maritime Commission, 14 August 1944
  • Converted to a Hospital Ship at Atlantic Basin Iron Works, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Commissioned USS Tranquillity (AH-14), 24 April 1945, Capt. Merrittt D. Mullen, USNR, in command
  • During World War II Tranquillity was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the:
  • Reclassified as an Evacuation Transport (APH-114), 3 November 1945
  • Classification reverted Hospital Ship (AH-14), 25 March 1946
  • Decommissioned, 16 July 1946
  • Laid up in the Reserve Fleet
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 September 1961
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1974
  • Tranquillity received one battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 11,141t.(lt) 15,226 t.(fl)
    Length 520'
    Beam 71' 6"
    Draft 24'
    Speed 18.5 kts.
    Armament none
    Complement 564
    Patient Accommodations 800
    Propulsion combination HP/LP 600 PSI steam turbine geared engine, single screw, shp 9.000
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    Tranquillity 92k Tranquillity (AH-14) underway off New York, circa April-May 1945
    US Navy photo # NH 92946 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, Courtesy USNI collection of James C Fahey.    		 US Navy Historical Center
    Tranquillity 64k Tranquillity (AH-14) off New York Navy Yard, 29 April 1945
    US Navy photo # NH 92947 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, Courtesy USNI collection of James C Fahey    		 US Navy Historical Center
    Tranquillity 66k Tranquillity (AH-14) underway off New York, 30 April 1945
    US Navy photo # NH 92948 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, Courtesy USNI collection of James C Fahey    		 US Navy Historical Center
    Tranquillity 41k Tranquillity (AH-14) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Naval Hospital Corps School
    Tranquillity 86k Tranquillity (AH-14) at Guam with Indianapolis (CA-35), survivors, 8 August 1945
    US Navy photo # K 5979 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center    		 US Navy Historical Center
    Tranquility 89k Tranquillity (AH-14) at Guam with Indianapolis (CA-35) survivors, 8 August 1945.
    Note bow of Steele (DE-8) visible in foreground.
    US Navy photo # K 5987 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Navy Historical Center
    Tranquility 120k Tranquillity (AH-14) at Guam with Indianapolis (CA-35) unloading survivors onto the pier, 8 August 1945.
    US Navy photo # K 5986 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center    		 US Navy Historical Center
    Tranquility 90k Tranquillity (AH-14) underway, date and place unknown. .
    Tranquility 127k Tranquillity (AH-14) moored pierside, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Capt Jerry Mason, USN
    Tranquility 123k Tranquillity (AH-14) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Capt Jerry Mason, USN
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