HOPE AH 7

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Ship Name and Designation History

This section lists the names and designations that the ship had during its lifetime. The list is in chronological order.

    Comfort Class Hospital Ship
    Keel Laid (Date unknown)
    Launched 30 August 1943 as "FRED MORRIS"
    Acquired by US Navy 30 August 1943 and renamed

  1. USS HOPE AH-7
    Commissioned 15 August 1944 - Decommissioned 9 May 1946
    Transferred to the US Army 9 May 1946
    Struck from Naval Register 21 May 1946

  2. USAT HOPE
    Assigned to the US Army Transportation Corps for service as a transport from 1946 to 1950

    Laid up 5 January 1950 in National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, California
    Sold 16 February 1978 to Union Minerals & Alloys Corp. for scrap.

Naval Covers

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Since a ship may have many covers, they may be split among many pages so it doesn't take forever for the pages to load. Each page link should be accompanied by a date range for covers on that page.

  1. USS Hope AH-7 Covers Page 1     (DATE RANGE)

 

Postmarks

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A postmark should not be included unless accompanied by a close-up image and/or an image of a cover showing that postmark. Date ranges MUST be based ONLY ON COVERS IN THE MUSEUM and are expected to change as more covers are added.
 
>>> If you have a better example for any of the postmarks, please feel free to replace the existing example.


 

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Killer Bar Text

Postmark
Date
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Postmark Image
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Locy Type
FDC 2z

1944-08-15

Commissioning, cachet by Dr. Stephen E. Hutnick.

 

Other Information

USS HOPE earned the Combat Action Ribbon (3 awards), the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (w/ 2 Battle stars), the World War II Victory Medal, the Navy Occupation Service Medal (w/ Asia clasp), the Philippines Presidential Unit Citation Ribbon and the Philippines Liberation Medal (2 awards) during her Naval career.

NAMESAKE - To have confidence; trust.

The ships sponsor was Miss Martha L. Floyd.

 


 

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