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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

Contributed by Don Mc Grogan

USAT Hope
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USS Hope (AH-7) (1944 - 1946)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Alpha - Uniform - Juliet NAUJ

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, 3 & 6 Dec. 1944, and at Okinawa)
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal
Third Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - Philippines Presidential Unit Citation - Philippines Liberation Medal (1)

Comfort Class Hospital Ship:

Laid down, date unknown, as SS Fred Morris a Maritime Commission type (C1-B) hull under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 490) at Consolidated Steel, Corp., Wilmington, CA.

Launched and acquired by the US Navy from the War Shipping Administration, 30 August 1943

Converted to a Hospital Ship at US Naval Dry Dock, Terminal Island, CA.

Commissioned USS Hope (AH-7), 15 August 1944, CDR. Albert E. Richards in command

During World War II USS Hope was assigned to Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaigns:

Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Asiatic-Pacific Campaigns
Leyte operation :Leyte landings, 8 to 29 November 1944	Okinawa Gunto operation Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 13 April to 12 May 1945

Following World War II USS Hope was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 2 to 26 September 1945

Decommissioned, 9 May 1946, at San Francisco, CA.

Turned over to the US Army for further use as a transport, 26 April 1946

Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown

USS Hope earned two battle stars of World War II service

Transferred to the US Army assigned to the Transportation Corps for service as a transport

Transferred to the Maritime Commission, 5 January 1950 for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 16 February 1978, to Union Minerals & Alloys Corp. (PD-X-1025) for $130,000.00, Withdrawn from the Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay, 10 March 1978

Specifications:
Displacement 9,800 t.(fl)
Length 416'
Beam 60'
Draft 24'
Speed 15 kts.

Complement

Officers 80

Enlisted 436

Patient Accommodations 400

Largest Boom Capacity 5 t.

Fuel Capacities

NSFO 12,010 Bbls

Diesel 615 Bbls

Propulsion

one J. H. geared turbine

three Babcock and Wilcox header-type boilers, 450psi 750°

double J. H. Main Reduction Gears

three 300Kw 120V/240V Ship's Service Generators

one propeller, 4,000shp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Hope (AH-7)
	272k	*USS Hope* (AH-7) under way off the coast of Southern California, 30 August 1944. Photographed from a blimp of squadron ZP-31*. US National Archives Photo # 80-G-246912*, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.	Robert Hurst
	58k	*USS Hope* (AH-7)** moored in port, date and location unknown.	Tommy Trampp
< 09120708	130k	*USS Hope* (AH-7)** at anchor, date and location unknown. Photo from Flickr - smallcurio	John Spivey
	117k	*USS Hope* (AH-7)** moored to a buoy, date and location unknown.	Tommy Trampp
09120706	66k	*USS Hope* (AH-7)** at anchor date and location unknown.	Tommy Trampp
	263k	The wheel from *USS Hope* (AH-7)*, as prepared for presentation to the entertainer Bob Hope. Photographed 13 April 1970 at the Naval Photographic Center, Washington, D.C. This photograph has been retouched to obscure the inscriptions on the two plagues attached to the wheel. US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 103221*, by PH2 J.W. Wilson	Robert Hurst
USAT Hope
	57k	USAT Hope underway, date and location unknown.	Tommy Trampp
09120707	159k	USAT Hope with Army tug alongside in San Francisco Bay and with Alcatraz to the right, circa 1946-1950.	Darryl Baker