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unusual facts about hospital ship



George Countess

Made captain in 1790, he was in command of HMS Charon in 1794 and witnessed the Glorious First of June from her, although she was not engaged as she was a hospital ship.

HMS Tracker

In 1952 she acted as the hospital ship for the first British atomic bomb test, (Operation Hurricane), which took place off the north-west coast of Australia.

Hospital train

Such trains were able to connect with hospital ships at French channel ports in order to repatriate wounded British soldiers during the first world war.

Lucas Oswald

Lucas Harrison Oswald (born June 11, 1988) is an American musician, known as a multi-instrumental and vocal contributor to the bands Shearwater, The Appleseed Cast, Minus Story, Hospital Ships, and Old Canes.

Project HOPE

Its most visible aspect was the SS HOPE, the first peacetime hospital ship (converted from the USS Consolation (AH-15)).

SS Admiral Nakhimov

The Berlin was chartered by the Nazis in 1939 as a Strength Through Joy (Kraft durch Freude, KdF) workers' cruising ship and was used as a hospital ship later on in World War II.


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1 Medical Battalion Group

The Natal Medical Corps was mobilised in 1914 and served in the South West African Campaign where they formed the 6th Stationary Hospital at Swakupmond and manned the hospital ship 'Ebani'.

Allen Young

In 1885 Sir Allen Young was master of the hospital ship Stella supporting British military actions in the Soudan.

Battle of Ky Hoa

Charner's squadron, the most powerful French naval force seen in Vietnamese waters before the creation of the French Far East Squadron on the eve of the Sino-French War (August 1884–April 1885), included the steam frigates Impératrice Eugénie and Renommée (Charner and Page's respective flagships), the corvettes Primauguet, Laplace and Du Chayla, eleven screw-driven despatch vessels, five first-class gunboats, seventeen transports and a hospital ship.

Edward Burd Grubb, Jr.

Commissioned as a first lieutenant, he would ultimately be promoted to Captain and served as an aide to Brig. Gen. George W. Taylor during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign, where he contracted typhoid and was confined to a hospital ship shortly after the Battle of Malvern Hill.

USAHS Blanche F. Sigman

Throughout 1945, the hospital ship made six transatlantic treks, visiting Marseille three times, Naples, Oran, Gibraltar, Milford Haven, Wales, Avonmouth, Cherbourg, and Horta.