USS Repose (AH-16)
USS Repose (AH -16 ) was a hospital ship Haven class in the service of the United States Navy. She was from 1945 until January 1950, from October 1950 to 1954 and from 1965 to 1970 on active duty. In the periods between your active duty the ship was in the reserve. After another 5 years in the reserve, the ship was sold and scrapped in 1975.
History
The ship was given in 1943 and built at the company Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. in Chester, Pennsylvania in order. The naming ceremony took place on 8 August 1944 by Mrs. Pauline P. McIntyre. The subsequent conversion and final finishing to the hospital - Shiff was carried out at Bethelem Steel Co., and on May 26, 1945, the first delivery to the U.S. Navy and the ship is. The first commander of the ship was Captain WO Britten.
With a capacity of 750 beds and a crew size of 564 men, the USS Repose left the naval base at Norfolk on 8 July 1945 in the Pacific. After the ship hatt made to and from various ports in the Pacific different transports, it was used as a hospital ship in the port of Shanghai and Tsingtao later. The ship had become indispensable in time for the Asian region, where the ship occasionally, until 1949, returned to the United States. At the beginning of 1950, the ship returned to the U.S. and was placed on January 19, 1950 in San Francisco for the first time out of service and placed in the reserve.
The USS Repose was added August 26, 1950 back to active duty and then went then to Pusan , Korea. Upon arrival in Korean waters and the frequent evacuation of patients to Japan, returned to the ship in 1954, except for a small repair stay and the installation of a helipad at the stern February-March 1953, after San Francisco back. Took place on 27 September 1954 at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard their transfer to the Navy Reserve Fleet and on December 21, 1954 her second decommissioning in Point Naval Ship Yard.
After 11 years in the reserve, the USS Repose was ordered again to active duty and returned to Vietnam. Upon arrival on January 3, 1966, she was used mainly in Southeast Asia and reaped through your use of the nickname "Angel of the Orient". She treated and transported over 24,000 patients and 9000 deaths. The ship left Vietnam on March 14, 1970 and returned to the United States. There she was placed in May 1970 the third time out of service and used as a stationary hospital ship for the Navy Hospital Long Beach, but you fixed that turned this is uneconomical and too expensive therefore the ship was sold for scrapping in 1975.
The USS Repose also received 9 Battlestar for their use in Korea 9 Battlestar and for use in Vietnam.