Following her October 1943 decommissioning, the elderly transport Henderson (AP-1) was converted to a hospital ship at Oakland, California. Renamed Bountiful (AH-9), she was recommissioned in March 1944. After a round trip between San Francisco and Honolulu, she arrived off the invasion beaches at Saipan in June. The hospital ship made three transits to Kwajalein with casualties of the Marianas invasions, then served into September as a floating hospital at Manus. During the rest of the year and into 1945 Bountiful transported casualties of the Peleliu landing to hospitals in the Solomons and carried veterans from Leyte to rear bases. In February 1945 she departed Manus to receive casualties of the Iwo Jima campaign, and over the next several months took on wounded from Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and fleet units at sea. Bountiful returned to Leyte in June, departed in July and arrived at San Francisco in late August 1945.
Postwar, Bountiful was sent back across the Pacific and served as hospital ship at Yokosuka, Japan from November 1945 to March 1946, then made a voyage to the U.S. West Coast. Between May and August she supported the atomic bomb tests at Bikini. USS Bountiful was decommissioned and turned over to the Maritime Commission in September 1946, stricken from the list of Naval vessels in the following month, and delivered to a scrapping firm in January 1948.
This page features all the views we have related to USS Bountiful (AH-9), and provides links to pictures of her as USS Henderson (Transport # 1, later AP-1).
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Photo #: NH 103569 USS Bountiful (AH-9) Photographed by the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 27 March 1944, four days after recommissioning as a hospital ship and before being painted with hospital ship markings. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 620 pixels |
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Photo #: 80-G-256987 USS Bountiful (AH-9) Off Guam on 24 July 1944, three days after the inital landings there. Photographed from USS New Mexico (BB-40). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 615 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 80-G-K-2138 (Color) USS Bountiful (AH-9) In a Southwestern Pacific port in 1944-45. An Australian cruiser, either Australia or Shropshire, is in the left distance. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 530 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: NH 103574 USS Bountiful (AH-9) At Ulithi in the Caroline Islands on 24 March 1945. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 605 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 103573 USS Bountiful (AH-9) Photographed by the Mare Island Navy Yard on 5 October 1945. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 595 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 103572 USS Bountiful (AH-9) Photographed in 1944 or 1945. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 490 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 98752 USS Bountiful (AH-9) In San Francisco Bay, California, between August 1945 and May 1946. Donation of Boatswain's Mate First Class Robert G. Tippins, USN (Retired), 2003. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 555 pixels |
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Photo #: 80-G-350765 USS Bountiful (AH-9) Taking casualties on board from USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) on 12 May 1945, one day after the carrier was devastated by a kamikaze attack. USS The Sullivans (DD-537) is in the foreground. Photographed by PhoM2/c F. W. Pataye, USN of Commander Service Squadron 6. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 605 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: NH 99384-A USS Enterprise (CV-6) Transferring casualties to USS Bountiful (AH-9) on 15 May 1945, a day after the carrier had been hit by a kamikaze in the vicinity of the forward elevator. Cropped from Photo # NH 99384. Collection of Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, donated in 1973-75. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 575 pixels |
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For other images concerning this ship, see:
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 15 July 2004
New images added 9 December 2006