United States Navy Hospital Ships - Comfort Class Hospital Ships, Design 1095 Ships of the United States Navy, Mercy Class Hospital Ships (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 136. Not illustrated. Chapters: Comfort Class Hospital Ships, Design 1095 Ships of the United States Navy, Mercy Class Hospital Ships, Tryon Class Evacuation Transports, Unique Hospital Ships of the United States Navy, Uss Comfort, Uss Mercy, Usns Comfort, Uss Relief, Uss Whidbey, Uss Pinkney, Uss Red Rover, Uss Henderson, Uss Wanderer, Uss Samaritan, Usns Mercy, Uss Solace, Uss Tryon, Uss Pawnee, Uss Refuge, Uss Antaeus, List of Us Navy Hospital Ships, Uss Ben Morgan, Uss Idaho, Uss Hope, Uss Vermont, Uss Colleton, Uss Douglas County, Uss Home, Uss Rixey, Uss Qui Vive, Uss Bountiful. Excerpt: USS Comfort (AH-3) was a hospital ship for the United States Navy in World War I. She was the sister ship of USS Mercy (AH-4) but the two ships were not of a ship class. Comfort was known as SS Havana in passenger service for the Ward Line, and as USAT Havana in United States Army service before her Navy service. Her name was restored to Havana in 1927, and she was renamed SS Yucatan in 1935, and SS Agwileon in 1941. In World War II, she was known as USAT Agwileon and USAHS Shamrock in service for the United States Army. Launched in 1906, SS Havana was a passenger steamer for the Ward Line on the New YorkHavana route from 1907 to 1917. Before being purchased by the Navy, the ship briefly served as United States Army transport ship USAT Havana and was in the first United States convoy of ships to sail for France during World War I. In her Navy career, Comfort made three transatlantic voyages, bringing home over 1,100 men from European ports. Comfort was placed in reserve in September 1919, decommissioned in 1921, and sold in April 1925. The former hospital ship was repurchased by the Ward Line in 1927, who refitted her and placed her back in service on the Havana route under her original name of Havana. In January 1935, Havana grounded on a ...