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USS Haven (AH-12)
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Exploded view of USS Haven (Haven Class AH-12 to 17) - Compartment & Access Diagram by J.M. Hobson, PHM/3c.
(USS Tranquility. Haven 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.
BUMED 16-0020-004 |
Michael Rhode Archivist / Curator US Navy BUMED Communications Directorate (M09B7) Office of Medical History |
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USS Solace (AH-5) alongside USS Haven (AH-12) at Pearl Harbor between 13 and 16 July
1945.
US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo # 80-G-354889, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
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USS Haven (AH-12) arriving at the city of Nagasaki, 11 September 1945. Haven took on board former Allied
prisoners of war, some of whom suffered from the effects of the Nagasaki bomb blast.
Australian War Memorial, Photo No. P05050.005 |
Mike Green |
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USS Wichita (CA-45) in Nagasaki Harbor, Japan, in September 1945, a few weeks after the end of World War II. The hospital ships in the left background are USS Sanctuary (AH-17) and USS Haven (AH-12).
US Navy photo # NH 65834 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command, collection of Admiral Harry W. Hill, USN, 1968. |
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USS Haven (AH-12) in San Francisco Bay, CA., between July 1945 and May 1946. Note the hospital ship markings with a single red cross and a horizontal bar the length of the ship.
US Navy photo # NH 98754 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 Haven (AH-12) at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 7 February 1946. USS Arneb (AKA-56) is in the foreground.
Mare Island Naval Shipyard photo # 557-46, 2/7/46 |
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Ships berth at Mare Island, 12 February 1946, are from left to right;
USS LSM-451,
USS Montrose (APA-212),
USS Uvalde (AKA-88),
USS Arneb (AKA-56) and
USS Haven (AH-12).
Additional LSMs that can be identified include;
USS LSM-428,
USS LSM-350, and
USS LSM-426,
US Navy photo courtesy Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum photo. |
Darryl Baker |
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Forward plan view of USS Haven (AH-12) at Mare Island Navy Yard, 27 March 1946
File name: AH 12 1251-46, Navy Photo, 3/27/46 |
Darryl Baker |
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After plan view of USS Haven (AH-12) at Mare Island Navy Yard, 27 March 1946
File name: AH 12 1251-46, Navy Photo, 3/27/46 |
Darryl Baker |
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USS Haven (AH-12) date and location unknown.
US Navy photo |
Naval Hospital Corps School Web Site |
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USS Haven (AH-12) date and location unknown.
US Navy photo |
US Navy Hospital Ships Web Site |
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USS Haven (AH-12) date and location unknown.
US Navy photo |
Hyperwar US Navy in WWII Web Site |
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USS Haven (AH-12)'s volunteer crew member band holding a practice session.
Photo from the authors collection, "Hospital Ships of World War II: An Illustrated Reference" by Emory A. Massman. |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Haven (AH-12) crew members line up to make their purchases at the slop chest counter.
Photo from the authors collection, "Hospital Ships of World War II: An Illustrated Reference" by Emory A. Massman. |
Robert Hurst |
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USS 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 |
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USS Haven (AH-12) pierside Nagasaki, Japan, circa 11 September 1945. |
Russ Padden from the USS Lanier cruise book |
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USS 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 |
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USS Haven (AH-12) arriving at San Pedro, 28 August 1950, from the reserve fleet in San Diego. Note: Lifeboats are still in
protective enclosures.
US Navy photo courtesy Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum photo. |
Darryl Baker |
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USS 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 |
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USS 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 |
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USS Haven (AH-12) docked at Pusan, Korea, 11 June 1951.
USN Navy photo # USN 430052. BUMED photo # 09-5074-5. |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Haven (AH-12) at anchor, date and location unknown.
BUMED photo # 14-0062-003 |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Haven (AH-12) under way, date and location unknown. |
Wolfgang Hechler |
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Aerial view of USS Haven (AH-12) at anchor off Inchon, South Korea. The platforms on each side of the ship permit helicopters to land with wounded men they have picked up at the fighting front only minutes earlier.
US Navy Photo # USN 134343. BUMED photo # 09-5074-16. |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Haven (AH-12) at anchored off Inchon South Korea in the summer of 1952. Haven was equipped with specially constructed and moored platforms, designed to receive wounded personnel via helicopter, making her look like a giant space station with solar panels extended. A painted yellow disk on the deck of
each barge marked the landing zone.
US Navy photo from BUMED Library and Archives, [Hospital ships. Transport of sick
and wounded.][Scene.] Haven (AH-12). 08/1952; USN 445550; US Navy. |
Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret. and Bill Gonyo |
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USS 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. |
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USS 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 |
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Aerial view of a Marine helicopter bringing in wounded from the front lines approaching the landing float on the starboard side of USS Haven (AH-12) off the coast South Korea, August 1952.US Navy photo # USN 445546, BUMED photo # 14-0063-003. |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Haven (AH-12) underway 5 January 1952. 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 |
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USS Haven (AH-12) loading out at San Diego in January 1953.
BUMED photos 16-0002-007-007 and 16-0002-007-008 courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine, probably by Zelma "Suzie" Coyle, Coyle Collection. |
Michael Rhode, BUMED |
BUMED 16-0002-007-008 |
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Stern USS Haven (AH-12) being painted, circa 1953, location unknown.
US Navy photo |
Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. |
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Aerial view of USS Haven (AH-12) anchored in Inchon harbor, Korea, 14 June 1953.
US Navy Photo # K-16519, by PHAN L. R. Dylina, now in the collections of the US National Archives |
US Naval History and Heritage Command |
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Bird's eye view of USS Haven (AH-12) from a helicopter about to land on the helo deck.
USS Consolation (AH-15) lies off her starboard bow. Photo was taken, 14 August 1953 off the Korean coast by a Marine Corps photographer.
Courtesy of LCDR Youssef H. Aboul-Enein, MSC, USN.
US Navy BUMED Photo # 14-0063-005. |
Robert Hurst |
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Nurses assigned to USS Haven (AH-12) pose on helo deck. Korea, circa 1953.
US Navy BUMED Photo # 16-0002-005, Coyle Collection. |
Michael G. Rhodes, BUMED |
US Navy BUMED photo # 16-0002-001 |
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USS Haven (AH-12) "The Great White Angel" under way in 1953.
US Navy BUMED photo # 16-0002-001 (Hand colored print part of triptych by Morper Ship Pictures from the Coyle Collection of US Navy Photo # 98795),
US Navy BUMED photo # 16-0002-002 and
US Navy BUMED photo # 16-0002-003 |
Michael Rhode BUMED |
US Navy BUMED photo # 16-0002-002 |
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US Navy BUMED photo # 16-0002-003 |
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USS Haven (AH-12) moored pierside, date and location unknown.
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Capt Jerry Mason, USN Ret |
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USS Haven (AH-12) at anchor, date and location unknown. |
Tommy Trampp |
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USS Haven (AH-12) underway, date and location unknown.
Photo courtesy of World War II Photography. |
Bill Gonyo |
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USS Haven (AH-12) at anchor, off San Diego, CA., date unknown.
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Nicholas Tiberio |
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USS Haven (AH-12) underway, date and location unknown. |
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USS 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. |
David Buell |
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USS Haven (AH-12) moored at pier 7, Naval Station Long Beach, CA., 1955 |
Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret. |
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USS Haven (AH-12) at anchor off Long Beach, CA., 14 September 1956, during the 1956 Fleet Review.
US Navy photo # 698168 |
David Buell |
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Plate 1 of SS Alaskan's Conversion.
1. Here's how the vessel looked when she served as the US Navy Hospital Ship Haven during World War II and the Korean conflict. She was originally laid down as a C4-S-B2 freighter.
2. When she entered Bethlehem Steel's Beaumont yard for conversion and jumboizing into a modern liquid chemical carrier she was essentially unchanged.
3. A new midbody 330 feet long was constructed and launched by the Bethlehem yard. Meanwhile work proceeded on dismantling and rearranging deck and interior structures on the original vessel.
4. The stern section was detached first and joined to the new midbody. After these two sections were undocked (right), the bow and old midbody (left) were drydocked for their separation. Photo 52189A-1 from Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
US BUMED photo # 14-0063-010 |
Robert Hurst |
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Plate 2 of SS Alaskan's Conversion.
5. Following the separation from the bow, the old midbody was towed out of the dry dock (see background). This left only the specially-braced bow on the dock and set the stage for the next step.
6. For the final joining operation, the new midbody with stern attached was brought into the dry dock and connected to the bow. The jumboizing operation lengthened the vessel 145 feet.
7. After the final connection was made, the jumboized ship was undocked and towed to a wet slip for completion. Officers' and crews' quarters as well as the bridge, are in the five-level aft deck house.
8. Here's SS Alaskan as completed. Now 665 feet overall, her nominal deadweight is more than 50 percent greater
than before. Her 28 cargo compartments carry approximately 170,000 barrels of chemical products. Photo 52189A-2 from Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
US BUMED photo # 14-0063-011 |
Robert Hurst |
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Ex-USS Haven (AH-12) under way at Boston in 1972 as the chemical tanker SS Alaskan
Photo © William Schell. |
Gerhard Mueller-Debus |
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Chemical tanker SS Alaskan moored pierside, date and location unknown. |
Gerhard Mueller-Debus |
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Chemical tanker SS Alaskan under way probably on the lower Mississippi River, date unknown. |
Gerhard Mueller-Debus |
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