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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 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.
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.
On 15 April 1917 while travelling to Egypt aboard the SS Arcadian, the ship was sunk by a U-boat. He was last seen two times floating in the sea: first upright and alive and then in a different position, presumably dead. His body was never recovered. [124] 13 February 1918 René Audry (Commander & 22 crew) Unknown
USNS Bob Hope (T-AKR-300), the lead ship of its class of vehicle cargo ships for United States Army vehicle prepositioning, was a naval ship of the United States named after Bob Hope, the entertainer. Very few ships of the United States Navy have been named after a person who was alive at the time of the christening.
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The Comfort-class hospital ships were a United States Navy World War II-era hospital ship design. Three vessels ( Comfort , Hope , and Mercy ) were built using these specifications. All ships were constructed in 1943 by the Consolidated Steel Corporation before being decommissioned in 1946.
USS Hope may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: USS Hope (1861) , was a Civil War gunboat purchased by the US Navy in November 1861 and sold 25 October 1865 USS Hope (AH-7) , was a hospital ship commissioned 15 August 1944