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83k | USS Scindia and USS Solace [with white hull,] at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., circa 1899. USS Ranger is moored in mid-channel, at the far left. US Navy photo # NH 71719 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, courtesy San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, CA. |
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337k | USS Solace in Mare Island Navy Yard's dry dock #1 with the USS Hartford at a berth to the right. Solace was in dry dock from June 8 to 12 1899. File name: June 1899 Solace AH2 (DD1) Hartford IX 13. |
Darryl Baker | |
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335k | USS Solace at the coaling berth, Mare Island Navy Yard, 1 July 1899. | Darryl Baker | |
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1093k | USS Solace moored in the Mare Island Channel, 1 July 1899. | Darryl Baker | |
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84k | USS Solace off Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., 1 July 1899.
US Navy photo # NH 43624, from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command, courtesy Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, USN(MC) collection. |
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260k | USS Solace (left) and USS Manila (right) moored pierside at Mare Island Navy Yard in September 1899. File name: MINSY Sep 1899 03 Solace AH 2 Manila. |
Darryl Baker | |
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San Francisco Call 26 February 1901, article, USS Solace Commanding Officer refuses to allow Quarantine or Customs Inspectors to board his ship. | Michael Mohl | ||
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159k | USS Solace off Mare Island Navy Yard while operating as a transport, circa 1903. US Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo # NH 76119, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
Mike Green | |
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98k | USS Solace at Naval Station Honolulu, T.H. with
USS Bennington (Gunboat # 4), in the foreground, circa 1904. Probably photographed from on board USS New York (Armored Cruiser # 2). US Navy photo # NH 102744 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command, collection of Martin Fenne. |
Robert Hurst | |
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374k | USS Solace underway, circa 1910s.
U.S. Navy "All Hands" magazine April 1967, p. 24. |
Robert Hurstr | |
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104k | USS Solace moored pierside, date and location unknown.
The photo bears the date "June 6" at the bottom. US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NH 43626, courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
Mike Green | |
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27k | USS Solace underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo |
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146k | Model of USS Solace at Boston Navy Yard, date unknown. | Tommy Trampp | |
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50k | USS Solace under way, date and location unknown. | ||
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126k | USS Solace under way, date and location unknown. | Library of Congress photo # 4a14730v, Detroit Photographic Co. collection | |
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USS Solace at anchor, date and location unknown. A post card was produced from this photo.
US Navy photo. |
Jim Kurrasch Battleship Iowa Pacific Battleship Center Arnold A. Putnam and Tommy Trampp |
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112k | USS Solace at anchor in Hampton Roads, VA., 10 December 1916. Library of Congress photo # LC-DIG-npcc-32725 |
Mike Green | |
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243k | Navy Hospital corpsman attending to a patient aboard USS Solace during World War I. | Bill Gonyo | |
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141k | Caskets of United States soldiers being brought home by USS Solace from Europe, circa 1918. Library of Congress photo # LC-H261- 4647-A |
Mike Green | |
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93k | USS Solace showing the style of hospital ship markings used during World War I. This photo probably shows the ship circa
1918-1919. US Naval History and Heritage Command., Photo No. Unknown (in NR&L file), courtesy Shipscribe.com. |
Mike Green | |
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86k | USS Solace at anchor, circa 1919, location unknown. | Robert Hurst | |
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88k | USS Solace at anchor in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 6 April 1919. At left is USS Savannah (ID# 3015) with submarines alongside. US Navy photo # NH 79532 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command. Courtesy of the St. Louis Memorial Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, 1974. |
Robert Hurst | |
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148k | Lifting a patient aboard USS Solace from one of the ships small boats, date and location unknown. US Navy photo. |
Ric Hedman | |
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84k | The main hospital ward aboard USS Solace. It could hold up to 68 patients and the surgical ward could hold up to 76. There were 3 isolation wards on the aft deck. US Navy photo. |
Ric Hedman | |
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100k | USS Solace ships laboratory. The latest in medical and sanitary technology was used aboard. US Navy photo. |
Ric Hedman | |
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119k | USS Solace dispensary and medical storeroom. The ship also had a diet kitchen with all electrical appliances and on board ice making plant. US Navy photo. |
Ric Hedman | |
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109k | USS Solace operating theater that handled the dental, eye, ear and throat issues. US Navy photo. |
Ric Hedman | |
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136k | USS Solace pilothouse, date unknown. | Library of Congress photo #4a14732v, the Detroit Photographic Co. collection | |
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123k | USS Solace steering gear, date unknown. | Library of Congress photo #4a14733v, the Detroit Photographic Co. collection | |
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202k | USS Solace Captain's cabin, date unknown. | Library of Congress photo #4a14734v, the Detroit Photographic Co. collection | |
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151k | USS Solace main salon, date unknown. | Library of Congress photo #4a14735v, the Detroit Photographic Co. collection | |
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129k | USS Solace hospital ward, date unknown. | Library of Congress photo #4a14736v, the Detroit Photographic Co. collection | |
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148k | USS Solace wardroom, date unknown. | Library of Congress photo #4a14740v, the Detroit Photographic Co. collection | |
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142k | USS Solace Officers, date unknown. | Library of Congress photo #4a14743v, the Detroit Photographic Co. collection | |
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131k | USS Solace in Gatun Lock, Panama Canal, early 1921. The Solace was decommissioned in July, 1921. US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. NH 93431. Courtesy of CAPT. C.W. Stoll, received from C.H. Bogart, 1972 |
Mike Green | |
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117k | USS Solace at anchor. This style of hospital ship markings was used soon after World War I. This photo may show the ship soon before her final decommissioning in 1921. A post card of this image photo was also created. US Naval History and Heritage Command. Photo No. Unknown (in NR&L file) |
Mike Green and Tommy Trampp | |
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216k | USS Solace (AH-2) (white hull) is among the laid up ships in the background in the upper right of this photo of USS R-26 (SS-103) getting ready to submerge at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, September 22, 1923. US Navy photo # 19-N-10578 a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives |
Daniel Dunham | |
| Commanding Officers | ||
| 01 | CDR. Dunlap, Andrew | 14 April 1898 - ? |
| 02 | CAPT. Winslow, Herbert | 24 April 1900 - ? |
| 03 | CDR. Singer, Frederic | 20 May 1902 - ? |
| 04 | CDR. Bull, James Henry | 20 April 1904 - 12 October 1905 |
| Decommissioned | 12 October 1905 - 3 June 1908 | |
| 05 | MEDINSP. Ellicott, John Morris | 3 June 1908 - 14 April 1909 |
| Decommissioned | 14 April 1909 - 20 November 1909 | |
| 06 | MEDINSP. Von Wedekind, Luther Lochman | 20 November 1909 - ? |
| 07 | MEDINSP. Gates, Manley Fitch | 25 October 1911 - ? |
| 08 | MEDINSP. Kennedy, Robert Morris | 20 January 1915 - ? |
| 09 | CAPT. (MC) Blackwood, Norman Jerome, USN | 7 September 1916 - ? |
| 10 | CDR. Plummer, Ralph Walter | 15 August 1919 - ? |
| 11 | CDR. Webb Ulys Robert | 16 May 1920 - 20 June 1921 |
| 12 | CDR. Plummer, Ralph Walter | 20 June 1921 - 20 July 1921 |
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