USS Haven and the following ships, USS Benevolence (AH-13), USS Tranquillity (AH-14), USS Consolation (AH-15), USS Repose (AH-16), USS Sanctuary (AH-17) and USS Rescue (AH-18) were based on Type C4-class ships, much in demand by the civilian market and was sold in 1967 and converted as a cargo ship. View of the USS Repose , a Haven-class hospital ship, anchored in the harbor, Inchon, South Korea, January 1952. History. Attacking a hospital ship is a war crime. Simkins J.D. The Navy is reporting 950 sailors have tested positive for COVID-19, and a second sailor from USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) has been admitted into the intensive care unit at Naval Hospital … In the South China Sea, a nurse tends a patient just out of surgery in the intensive care ward of the hospital ship USS Repose (AH-16). CRUISE BOOK OF THE US NAVY HOSPITAL SHIP REPOSE REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM 1969-1970 ... U.S. Navy. She’d grown up in North Industry, Ohio, and attended Aultman Hospital School of Nursing (now Aultman College of Nursing) in Canton. The ship is steaming off the coast of Vietnam a few miles south of the 17th parallel. USS Repose (AH-16) Publication date 1970-04 Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0 Topics USS Repose (AH-16), hospital ship, Vietnam War, Kathy MacDonald, USO, Playboy, Arthur Draper, Lindsay Getzen, Learn more on our privacy and legal page. 14. The original caption for this photograph reads: South China Sea....A nurse tends a patient just out of surgery in the [Most hospital ships in the US Navy during World War II were converted passenger liners. This primary source comes from the General Records of the Department of the Navy. Newspaper and television crews documented this war much more intensely than they did earlier conflicts. In 1967, she answered her nation's call, serving aboard the hospital ship USS Repose during the Vietnam War. HM 2 worked on Ward C6 rode the ship back to San Francisco Hope to see crew mates in Branson, Mo Sept 5-9 2007: Riddle, Richard: HM3: 1969 – 1970: Medical Supply: Served aboard the USS Repose AH 16 off Vietnam '69-'70. The first documents the delivery of injured Marines and the care they received aboard USS Repose off the coast of Vietnam; the second film shows medical care for Marines in the field in Vietnam through evacuation to the United States. Our mission is to engage, educate, and inspire all learners to discover and explore the records of the American people preserved by the National Archives. A Marine stands watch in an observation tower as a chaplain holds mass on Hill 950, July 31, 1967. Go to https://www.militaryvideo.com/ to purchase the entire video, or to see movie trailers of over 700 other military videos. DocsTeach is a product of the National Archives education division. This willingness to allow documentation of the war extended to the military's own photographers—who captured thousands of A nurse tends a patient just out of surgery in the Intensive Care ward of the hospital ship USS Repose, October, 1967. The ship is steaming off the coast of Vietnam a few miles south of the 17th parallel. Hospital ships of many types have been part of the United States Navy at least since 1798. Đà Nẵng Harbor. USS Repose (AH-16), the last of the World War II hospital ships on active duty, was decommissioned January, 1950. She was recommissioned six months later because of the Korean War. The USS Repose, hospital ship is steaming on the Gulf of Tonkin, some three miles off the coast of Da Nang, Vietnam. USS Repose, hospital ship, underway, as deck is cleared and wounded receiving care below. Three films from the mid-1960s. A nurse tends to a patient just out of surgery in the intensive care ward of the hospital ship USS Repose, October, 1967. This primary source comes from the General Records of the Department of the Navy. The online tool for teaching with documents, from the National Archives During his two-year tour in San Diego, there was a need for a pulmonary specialist aboard the hospital ship “USS Repose” in Vietnam, and Dr. Lischner served aboard this ship for two months until the ship was given orders to return to the United States. She’d worked as a general-duty nurse at Aultman Hospital for 26 months befor… Slideshow containing Intensive Care Ward full-size image I was a member of the Medical Supply un the command of LT Null. Marine Beaver was laid down on 22 October 1943 at Chester, Pa., by the Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., under a Maritime Commission contract (M.C. (October 1967) Apr 22, 2011 #9 Rights: Public Domain, Free of Known Copyright Restrictions. Born July 7, 1943, Lane was 25 years old. 1st hospital ship activated for service during the Vietnam Conflict. The first purposely built hospital ship (AH) in the US Navy was the USS Relief was commissioned in 1921. In 1969, Lane was assigned to the 312th Evacuation Hospital in Chu Lai, South Vietnam, in a region where U.S. infantrymen were fighting constant battles with surging Viet Cong troops.