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SS Hope was a hospital ship operated by Project HOPE. [1] This vessel was originally a US Navy hospital ship, USS Consolation (AH-15). Consolation was donated to Project Hope in 1958, and under its new name served from 1960 until 1974, when she was retired. Hope was not replaced, and the emphasis of Project HOPE switched entirely to land-based ...
USS Hope (AH-7) was a Comfort-class hospital ship launched under Maritime Commission contract by Consolidated Steel Corporation, Wilmington, California, 30 August 1943; sponsored by Miss Martha L. Floyd; acquired by the Navy the same day for conversion to a hospital ship by U.S. Naval Dry Dock, Terminal Island, Calif.; and commissioned 15 August 1944.
USS Consolation (AH-15) was a Haven-class hospital ship originally in service with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1955. In 1960 she was chartered to the People to People Health Foundation and renamed SS Hope and served for another 14 years until being scrapped in 1975.
SS Hope was a hospital ship operated by Project HOPE. Hope was originally a US Navy hospital ship, USS Consolation. Consolation was donated to Project Hope in 1958, and under her new name served from 1960 until her retirement in 1974. HMS Hope – One of 16 vessels of that name that served the Royal Navy
These ships all were commissioned in the US Navy, and had a US Navy Crew, but the hospital was operated by the US Army. These ships, unlike the Navy hospital ships, were intended for evacuation and transport of patients after primary care had been given. USS Comfort (AH-6) (1944–1946) USS Hope (AH-7) (1944–1946) USS Mercy (AH-8) (1944–1946)
The SS United States, a historic ship that still holds the transatlantic speed record it set more than 70 years ago, must leave its berth on the Delaware River in Philadelphia by Sept. 12, a ...
Within two years, the ship was transformed into the SS Hope. On September 22, 1960, Hope set sail from San Francisco bound for Indonesia. The S.S. HOPE eventually completed 11 voyages traveling to Indonesia, Vietnam, Peru, Ecuador, Guinea, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Tunisia, Jamaica, and Brazil. The ship was retired in 1974. [2]
Cargo ships SS Alcoa Partner (MC-493) to US Navy as Auriga (AK-98) Hospital ships SS Comfort (MC-1021) as Comfort (AH-6) at Bethlehem Shipbuilding San Pedro; SS Hope (MC-1015) as USS Hope (AH-7) at the U.S. Naval Dry Dock on Terminal Island; SS Mercy (MC-1022) as USS Mercy (AH-8) at the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company