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USS Consolation (AH-15)
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Exploded view of USS Consolation (Haven Class AH-12 to 17) - Compartment & Access Diagram by J.M. Hobson, PHM/3c.
(USS Tranquility. Consolation was one of six 15,0000 ton US Navy hospital ships to be converted from Maritime Commission C-4
hulls at shipyards in the New York Area. Known as the HAVEN class, these vessels are completely air conditioned and provide medical facilities equal to those of a
modern shore hospital.
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Michael Rhode Archivist / Curator US Navy BUMED Communications Directorate (M09B7) Office of Medical History |
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USS Consolation (AH-15) laying at anchor, late in World War II, location unknown.
Photo from "Hospital Ships of World II: An Illustrated Reference" by Emory A. Massman, authors collection. |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Consolation (AH-15) moored in the harbor at Nagoya, Japan in 1945 after the close of World War II.
Photo from Winston C. Dudley scrapbook. |
Brian Dalton |
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USS Consolation (AH-15) under way in 1945, location unknown.
Photo from "U.S. Navy photo; "U.S. Warships of World War 2" by Paul H. Silverstone. |
Mike Green |
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USS Consolation (AH-15) under way, date and location unknown.
Photo from "Hospital Ships of World II: An Illustrated Reference" by Emory A. Massman, authors collection. |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Consolation (AH-15) in San Francisco Bay, CA., between November 1945 and February 1946. Note the hospital ship markings with a single red cross and a horizontal bar the length of the ship.
US Navy photo # NH 98755 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command, donation of BM1 Robert G. Tippins, USN (Retired), 2003. |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Consolation (AH-15) at anchor while preparing to deploy to southeast Asia to bring advanced medical procedures to the
area, circa 1950. |
Ron Reeves |
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USS Consolation (AH-15) moored at Yokosuka, Japan, 10 January 1951. Note motor launches and LCVPs tied up in foreground.
USN Photo # 425771. BUMED photo # 14-0062-001 |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Consolation (AH-15) moored pierside at Pusan, South Korea, 1951. |
Jack Treutle |
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USS Consolation (AH-15) at anchor, date off the coast of South Korea. Note helicopter on the flight deck aft.BUMED photo # 14-0062-004 |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Consolation (AH-15) at anchor off the coast of South Korea. Note the Danish hospital Ship
Jutlandia in the distance, circa 1951-1953.
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Michael Rhode Archivist / Curator US Navy BUMED Communications Directorate (M09B7) Office of Medical History |
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Divine services being conducted, 7 October 1951, by LT. L.C. Austin (CHC) on board USS Consolation (AH-15) at Pusan, South Korea.
US National Archives Photo # USN 434755 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
Ron Reeves |
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USS Consolation (AH-15) at anchor in Sok Cho-Ri, Korea, 15 December 1951. Sok Cho-Ri was on the east coast of Korea 50 miles below the North Korean border. The hospital ship markings consist of three red crosses connected with a stripe.
US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 98785 by LT. B. A. McLawhorn. |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Consolation (AH-15) sits at anchor as a Sikorski H-5 helicopter of the 3rd Air Rescue Squadron approaches the ship's newly-installed helicopter deck, circa December 1951.
The helo was carrying litter patients on the last leg of an operation in which 37 wounded American and South Korean Marines were evacuated from an airstrip in north central Korea.
US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 98786, a US Air Force photo. |
US Naval Historical Center |
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USS Consolation (AH-15) off the Korean Coast, circa 21 December 1951, during the first air evacuation of casualties directly from the battlefield to a hospital ship. A US Air Force Sikorski H-5 helicopter is landing on board. US Navy photo # NH 85669, courtesy of Mrs. Joel T. Boone, 1977. |
US Naval Historical Center |
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USS Consolation (AH-15) is present beyond the bow of HMS Belfast in
the channel at Pusan, South Korea, 2 April 1952.
US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 99085. |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Consolation (AH-15) underway in the channel, bound for Inchon, Korea, 8 May 1952.
US Navy photo # K-12234, now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
US Naval Historical Center |
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USS Consolation (AH-15) at anchor, date and location unknown. |
US Navy Hospital Ships web site |
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USS Consolation (AH-15) underway, date and location unknown. |
Hyperwar US Navy in WWII web site |
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USS Consolation (AH-15) at anchor in Inchon harbor, circa 1952.
US Navy photo from the collection of CDR Nancy Crosby, NC, USN, Ret., "Navy Medicine" magazine March-April 2002. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. |
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USS Consolation (AH-15) photographed from the Golden Gate Bridge, 30 March 1955, as she returned to San Francisco from her
last deployment to the Western Pacific. The hospital ship markings consist of three red crosses without a connecting stripe.
US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 98787, by PH1 Timothy J. Leary, USN. |
US Naval Historical Center |
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The decommissioned USS Consolation (AH-15) laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Reserve Fleet, Benecia, CA., 25 March 1959. The ship inboard of Consolation is possibly the decommissioned USS Repose (AH-16).
US Navy photo from the collections of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum. |
Darryl Baker |
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Top side view looking aft of the decommissioned USS Consolation (AH-15) berthed at the US Naval Shipyard Mare Island Naval, Vallejo, CA., 22 December 1959.
US Navy photo from the collections of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum. |
Darryl Baker |
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Bow view of the decommissioned USS Consolation (AH-15) berthed at the US Naval Shipyard Mare Island Naval, Vallejo, CA., 22 December 1959.
US Navy photo from the collections of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum. |
Darryl Baker |
SS Hope - Project Hope (Charity Service)
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SS Hope at San Francisco. "Nurses Ann Roden (l) and Genevieve Ferreira extend hands of goodwill from the deck
of SS Hope. The Hope will carry medical aid and knowledge to the peoples of th Far East in a gesture of international good will. She is the
first of a projected fleet which will carry the medical knowledge of the U. S. to other lands."
UPI Telephoto |
Tommy Trampp |
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SS Hope in San Francisco Bay, 22 June 1960. The Oakland Bay Bridge is in the background.
09121527 US Navy photo from the collections of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum, contributed by Darryl Baker
09121501 US Navy photo contributed by William Toohey |
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SS Hope under way in San Francisco Bay, 22 June 1960, as she passes through the Golden Gate on a new mission to help heal the
disease-ridden of Southeast Asia.
UPI Telephoto. |
David Wright |
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Night photo of SS Hope in the port of Seattle, WA., preparing to leave for an overseas mission in September 1960.
"Waser Courier", 27 September 1960 |
Gerhard Mueller-Debus |
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SS Hope returning to San Francisco, 15 September 1961 from South East Asia. Photograph by Browning, Naval Photographic Center, Washington, DC.
BUMED photo # 14-0065-001 |
Robert Hurst |
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SS Hope entering Boston Harbor, 15 March 1963. |
Ron Reeves |
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SS Hope heads up the Delaware River to dock at Philadelphia, 1 September 1965, after a ten-month mission to Conakry, Guinea. The
floating medical center ended its teaching-healing mission on 14 August. On board were 90 members of a medical staff who had been with the ship since it docked at Conakry
in October 1964. This was the fourth of the ship's medical-education and treatment voyages. At right is the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.
AP Wirephoto. |
David Wright |
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SS Hope at anchor, date and location unknown. |
Nicholas Tiberio |
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SS Hope moored pierside, probably at Corinto, Nicaragua, circa May-June 1966. |
Tommy Trampp |
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SS Hope at Kingston, Jamaica, 15 February 1971
while in the service of Project Hope |
© Richard Leonhardt |
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SS Hope at Kingston, Jamaica, 15 February 1971
while in the service of Project Hope |
© Richard Leonhardt |
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Ex-SS Hope intentionally grounded to prevent her from sinking in the Delaware River after colliding with a tugboat, 13 February 1975. The accident occurred 30 miles south of Philadelphia after the ship had begun her last voyage to the scrap yard in Texas.
AP Wirephoto. |
Ron Reeves |
