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Preliminary Design Plan for a Hospital Ship ... February, 1915 prepared for the Navy Department during consideration of a design for a hospital ship to be included in the Fiscal Year 1917 program. This plan was intended to satisfy characteristics issued on 12 April 1913 by the General Board. This design concept, adapted from that used for transport USS Henderson (Transport # 1) was selected for construction of USS Relief (Hospital Ship # 1), built during 1917 to 1920. This plan provides a total berthing capacity of 674 for patients, no armament, and a speed of 14 knots in a ship 460 feet long on the water line, about 61 feet in beam, with a normal displacement of somewhat less than 10,000 tons. The original plan is in the 1911-1925 "Spring Styles Book" of the Bureau of Construction & Repair.
US Naval History and Heritage Command (from the Online Library), Photo No. S-584-049, courtesy Shipscribe.com.

Mike Green

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Drawing of the "new" hospital ship USS Relief from the front page of the "Army and Navy Register" Vol. LX, No. 1894, dated Washington, D. C., November 4, 1916.

Ron Reeves

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Relief under construction in slipway No. 1 at Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1917.US Navy photo.

Ron Reeves

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USS Relief (AH-1) at Philadelphia Navy Yard, ready to receive her crew, 15 December 1920.
Note Coal Barge (Freight Lighter) YC-136 alongside.
Courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine

Michael Rhode, Archivist / Curator, US Navy BUMED Communications Directorate (M09B7) Office of Medical History

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USS Relief (AH-1) moored at Philadelphia Navy Yard, circa 1920.
Courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine

Michael Rhode, Archivist / Curator, US Navy BUMED Communications Directorate (M09B7) Office of Medical History

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USS Relief (AH-1) near Philadelphia Navy Yard, ready to sail, 15 February 1921.
Courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine

Michael Rhode, Archivist / Curator, US Navy BUMED Communications Directorate (M09B7) Office of Medical History

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USS Relief (AH-1) near Philadelphia Navy Yard, ready to sail, 16 February 1921.
Courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine

Michael Rhode, Archivist / Curator, US Navy BUMED Communications Directorate (M09B7) Office of Medical History

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USS Relief (AH-1) at Philadelphia Navy Yard, 3 March 1921, as seen from an off the port bow angle. Note the primary operating room under the bridge with the numerous round windows to provide light.
US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NR&L(M) 21046, courtesy Shipscribe.com.

Mike Green

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Some of USS Relief (AH-1)'s nursing staff, March 1921. Principal Chief Nurse J. Beatrice Bowman is standing in the center, 4th from right.
US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo # NH 53047 .

Robert Hurst

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USS Relief (AH-1) taking patients aboard, date and location unknown.
Courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine

Michael Rhode, Archivist / Curator, US Navy BUMED Communications Directorate (M09B7) Office of Medical History

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USS Relief (AH-1) Deck for convalescent patients (boxes along bulkhead contain steamer chairs). Also titled: Sick officers deck looking forward, circa 1921.
Courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine

Michael Rhode, Archivist / Curator, US Navy BUMED Communications Directorate (M09B7) Office of Medical History

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USS Relief (AH-1) nurses with their patients, on deck in March 1921.
US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo # NH 53046 .

Robert Hurst

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USS Relief (AH-1) at anchor possibly in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, circa 1921.
Courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine

Michael Rhode, Archivist / Curator, US Navy BUMED Communications Directorate (M09B7) Office of Medical History

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Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby boards USS Relief (AH-1) at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 1921
Courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine

Michael Rhode, Archivist / Curator, US Navy BUMED Communications Directorate (M09B7) Office of Medical History

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USS Relief (AH-1) crewmen caught a large shark while in Caribbean waters in 1921.
Courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine

Michael Rhode, Archivist / Curator, US Navy BUMED Communications Directorate (M09B7) Office of Medical History

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USS Relief (AH-1) sailors pass the time dancing with each other while the ship was anchored in Guacanayabo Bay, Cuba in 1921.
Courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine

Michael Rhode, Archivist / Curator, US Navy BUMED Communications Directorate (M09B7) Office of Medical History

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USS Relief (AH-1) receives a patient in a splint stretcher from a destroyer, date and location unknown. Photo from article "Hospitals go to Sea" by Lucius Johnson.
Courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine

Michael Rhode, Archivist / Curator, US Navy BUMED Communications Directorate (M09B7) Office of Medical History

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USS Relief (AH-1) moored pierside at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 8 November 1921.
US Navy photo.

Tommy Trampp

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USS Relief (AH-1) at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 22 February 1922, dressed for Washington's birthday. The destroyer USS Stewart (DD-224) in the background was captured in dry-dock at at Surabaya Java by the Japanese during World War II.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 65002, courtesy Shipscribe.com.

Mike Green

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USS Relief (AH-1) underway, date and location unknown.

Submitted by Elaine C. Witty, Charpentier, photo from the collection of Gerald M. Charpentier

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USS Relief (AH-1), date and location unknown.
US Navy photo

Darryl Baker

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USS Relief (AH-1) at anchor, circa 1921-22, location unknown.
US Navy Recruiting Bureau photo

Darryl Baker

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Aerial view of USS Relief (AH-1) underway, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo

Carrie Schmidt

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USS Relief (AH-1) crew preparing caskets for dead USS Mississippi (BB-41) and USS New Mexico (BB-40) sailors on 13 June 1924. Forty-eight officers and men, including five observers from New Mexico (BB-40), were killed when Mississippi (BB-41)'s Number Two 14-inch Gun Turret exploded and burned during gunnery practice on 12 June at San Pedro, CA..

From the files of the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum via Darryl L. Baker.

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Aerial view of USS Relief (AH-1) at anchor, date and location unknown.
Courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine

Michael Rhode, Archivist / Curator, US Navy BUMED Communications Directorate (M09B7) Office of Medical History

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USS Relief (AH-1) at Mare Island Navy Yard. Relief was in overhaul at the yard from June 17 to July 3 1924. Note SS President Taft is aft of Relief
Photo from the collections of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum.

Darryl Baker

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Life-saving device designed to rescue survivors from a stricken ship. Tested on USS Relief (AH-1), date unknown.

Courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine
Michael Rhode, Archivist / Curator, US Navy BUMED Communications Directorate (M09B7) Office of Medical History

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USS Relief (AH-1) 1925 Nursing staff. Reading LEFT to RIGHT: 1.Margaret Barnes; 2. Marie Louise Breingan; 3. Lois Harkness; 4. Caroline Graham; 5. Dema V. Leopold; 6. Sue S. Dauser; 7. Ellen Eva Wells; 8. Mary V. Noone; 9. Carrie Albright; 10. Elizabeth Keavey; 11. Ruth Martin; 12. Mary Hennemeier.
from Lucius Johnson Collection, Box 3, USS Relief photographs, National Museum of Health and Medicine

Courtesy of the National Museum of Health and Medicine
Michael Rhode, Archivist / Curator, US Navy BUMED Communications Directorate (M09B7) Office of Medical History

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USS Relief (AH-1) at anchor, 4 May 1925, location unknown.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-466561, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.

Mike Green

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USS Relief (AH-1) at anchor circa 1926. This photograph highlights the much talked about 75-window operating room below the pilot house.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-463934, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.

Robert Hurst

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USS Mercy (AH-4) and USS Relief (AH-1) anchored at Guantanamo, Cuba in April 1927. Note the absence of hospital markings on both ships.
Photo Bill Faulk.

Robert Hurst

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USS Relief (AH-1) steams through the Panama Canal in the 1930s.
US Navy photo from Flickr - Ronnie Bell

John Spivey

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USS Relief (AH-1), circa 1935, location unknown.
US Navy photo

Robert Hurst

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USS Relief (AH-1), date and location unknown.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-446445, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives

US Naval Historical Center

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USS Relief (AH-1) at anchor, possibly at Pearl Harbor, date unknown.

Ric Hedman

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USS Relief (AH-1) and USS Saratoga (CV-3) at anchor off one of the Hawaiian Islands, circa summer of 1939-summer 1940.

Brad Proffitt for his father Floyd Proffitt, USS Thresher, SS-200

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USS Relief (AH-1) underway in the Panama Canal, circa 1930-40.

Brad Proffitt for his father Floyd Proffitt, USS Thresher, SS-200 and Tommy Trampp

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USS Relief (AH-1) underway, date and location unknown.

Tommy Trampp

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USS Relief (AH-1) at anchor, date and location unknown.
Published by Herz Postcards, San Diego, CA.

Tommy Trampp

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USS Relief (AH-1) receives patients from USS Wyoming (AG-17) at San Pedro, CA., 18 February 1937. During the culminating phase of a multi-faceted (land, sea, and air) exercise, a shrapnel shell exploded prematurely as it was being rammed into one of Wyoming's the ship's 5-inch broadside guns. Six marines were killed, and 11 were wounded. Immediately after the explosion, Wyoming sped to San Pedro, where she transferred the wounded marines to Relief.

Tommy Trampp

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USS Relief (AH-1) at anchor, date and location unknown.

Tommy Trampp

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USS Relief (AH-1) possibly off Maui, Hawaiian Islands, date unknown.

Ric Hedman

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One of USS Relief (AH-1)'s boats taking a patients ashore, date and location unknown.
US Navy BUMED photo # 15-3001-0023

Michael G Rhode CIV USN BUMED

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USS Relief (AH-1) at anchor, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo

Jim Kurrasch
Battleship Iowa Pacific Battleship Center

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USS Relief (AH-1) passes under the Golden Gate Bridge opening day, 27 May 1937.

Tommy Trampp

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USS Relief (AH-1) at Norfolk Navy Yard, 29 September 1941. War preparations included painting Geneva Convention markings on the ship and blanking out the numerous windows of the operating room under the bridge.
_U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM, Photo No. 19-N-25532_a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com.

Mike Green

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USS Relief (AH-1) at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA., while undergoing overhaul, 29 September 1941. Note details of her bridge, and the illuminated hospital ship recognition cross just forward of and above the spread awning (in the right center). The ship ahead of USS Relief appears to be USS Orizaba (AP-24). An oiler and the sludge removal barge YSR-1 are in the upper right, with two old "flush deck" destroyers beyond.
US National Archives photo # 19-N-26136, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives

US Naval Historical Center

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USS Relief (AH-1) at anchor in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, 14 October 1941. The ship's masts have been shortened. The green band around the hull and red crosses have been added. The remainder of the ship remains unchanged from its original configuration.
US National Archives Photo # 80-G-463934, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, from "Hospital Ships of World war II: An Illustrated Reference" by Emory A. Massman.

Joe Nettles and Robert Hurst

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USS Relief (AH-1) at anchor in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, 14 October 1941.
US Navy photo from ONI 54-R

Tommy Trampp

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USS Relief (AH-1) at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 1943
US Navy photo

The US Navy Hospital Ship Relief (AH-1).
A Chronicle of Her Wartime Overseas Movements and Activities

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USS Relief (AH-1) at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 1943.
US Navy photo

Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret

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Ambulatory patients being lifted from a hospital barge in a landing box onto the deck of USS Relief (AH-1) at Tasma, Milne Bay, New Guinea, 4 October 1943.
US Army Signal Corps photo # 187409 from Flickr - Navy Medicine

John Spivey

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US serviceman wrapped in an American flag being buried at sea from the afterdeck of USS Relief (AH-1), date unknown.
US. National Archives photo # 80-G-344846.

Robert Hurst

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The body of a deceased Japanese soldier, covered with a Red Cross flag, is given an honorable burial at sea from USS Relief (AH-1), 10 October 1944. The Japanese soldier was wounded and taken prisoner at Saipan where he was taken aboard Relief for treatment and transportation to a US base hospital, but died of his wounds while enroute.
US Navy photo Pacific Fleet.

Tommy Trampp

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USS Relief (AH-1), at Ulithi, Caroline Islands, 13 March 1945
US Navy photo

Naval Hospital Corps School Web Site

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USS Relief (AH-1) in a Western Pacific harbor, probably at the time of the Okinawa campaign circa April 1945. The bow of USS Gillis (AVD-12) is on the left.
US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. 80-G-K-3707, courtesy Shipscribe.com.

Mike Green

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Burn casualties from the Okinawa beachhead being taken aboard USS Relief (AH-1), circa 22 April 1945.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-328900. Photo and text from "Hospital Ships of World War II: An Illustrated Reference" by Emory A. Massman.

Robert Hurst

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A burn casualty brought by patrol boat from the Okinawa beachhead being lifted aboard USS Relief (AH-1), circa 22 April 1945.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-318627 Photo and text from "Hospital Ships of World War II: An Illustrated Reference" by Emory A. Massman.

Robert Hurst

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USS Relief (AH-1) arrives at Tinian, Marianas Islands, 30 April 1945, with casualties from the Okinawa campaign. Photos by LT. Ethel Confer.

John Skillman

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Former American and Allied POWs checking their belongings before boarding USS Relief (AH-1), at Dairen, Manchuria, 11 September 1945. The prisoners had been held in a Japanese Prisoner of War camp at Mukden, Manchuria, 200 miles inland from the port Dairen. A US National Archives photo from "Hospital Ships of World War II: An Illustrated Reference" by Emory A. Massman.

Robert Hurst

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USS Relief (AH-1) at anchor, date and location unknown.
US Navy from "All Hands" magazine, issue April 1946

Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.

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USS Relief (AH-1), date and location unknown.
US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, June 1962

Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret

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USS Relief (AH-1) moored pierside, date and location unknown.

Tommy Trampp

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USS Relief (AH-1) at anchor, date and location unknown. The ship astern of Relief is probably USS Windsor (APA-55)

Brian Miller

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