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Photo # NH 46234:  USS Mercy in harbor, circa 1927

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Mercy (AH-4), 1918-1939 --
Views of the Ship taken after the mid-1920s


This page features all the post-1925 views we have of USS Mercy (AH-4).

For additional pictures concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Mercy (ID # 1305, later AH-4), 1918-1939.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital image presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: NH 105918

    USS Mercy
    (AH-4)

    Photographed while not wearing hospital ship markings, probably between 1925 and the end of the 1920s.

    Donation of Captain Stephen S. Roberts, USNR (Retired), 2008.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 480 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46234

    USS Mercy
    (AH-4)

    In a harbor, circa 1927.
    The ship is painted white, without hospital ship markings.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 115KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: 80-G-175236

    USS Mercy
    (AH-4)

    At Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 22 May 1927.
    Note that Mercy was not painted with hospital ship markings at that time.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 440 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 90711

    USS Mercy
    (AH-4)

    In port, circa 1927.
    Note that ship is not wearing hospital ship markings.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 67610

    USS Mercy
    (AH-4)

    At anchor, circa 1927, while painted white without hospital ship markings.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1969.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 455 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 49831

    USS Mercy
    (AH-4)

    Entering Vancouver Harbor, British Columbia, 5 August 1931.
    Photographed by The Crowden Sutton Company, Ltd.

    Donation of Rear Admiral Ammen Farenholt, USN (Medical Corps), 1935.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 49KB; 740 x 475 pixels

     


    USS Mercy (AH-4) is seen in the background of the following views of other ships:

    Photo #: NH 45660

    USS Nausett
    (YT-35)

    At the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, on 5 June 1926.
    The hospital ship Mercy (AH-4) is partially visible in the background.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 68KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41897

    USS S-7
    (SS-112)

    Passing USS Mercy (AH-4) in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, February 1928.
    Photographed by Tauzin.

    U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.

    Online Image: 54KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     


    For additional pictures concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Mercy (ID # 1305, later AH-4), 1918-1939.


    NOTES:

  • To the best of our knowledge, the pictures referenced here are all in the Public Domain, and can therefore be freely downloaded and used for any purpose.

  • Some images linked from this page bear obsolete credit lines citing the organization name: "Naval Historical Center". Effective 1 December 2008 the name should be cited as: "Naval History and Heritage Command".


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital image presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 30 November 2005
    New image added 7 January 2009