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Photo # NH 60261:  Scene in USS Mercy's surgical ward, circa 1919

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Mercy (ID # 1305, later AH-4), 1918-1939 --
On Board and Miscellaneous Views


This page features views taken on board USS Mercy (ID # 1305, later AH-4), and miscellanous images related to her.

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 53317

    Captain Norman J. Blackwood, USN (Medical Corps)
    , seated, second from right

    With the Officers of USS Mercy (ID # 1305, later AH-4), May 1918.
    Note wicker chairs.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 114KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 46240

    USS Mercy
    (ID # 1305, later AH-4)

    View on board, looking forward from the mainmast crows nest, while the ship was underway at sea during World War I.
    Photographed by E.J. Kelty.
    Note crosses painted on her smokestacks, and life rafts stacked on deck.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 68KB; 420 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 2674-B

    USS Mercy
    (ID # 1305, later AH-4)

    Motor launch comes alongside the ship to transfer patients, circa 1918.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 58KB; 740 x 475 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 2674-A

    USS Mercy
    (ID # 1305, later AH-4)

    Bringing patients on board the ship from a motor launch, circa 1918.
    Note embarkation ladder.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 485 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41870

    USS Mercy
    (ID # 1305, later AH-4)

    "The hospital ship Mercy, with several hundred heroes aboard, arriving in port of New York after a rough and stormy voyage. The ship was several days late, having been forced by the weather to put into Bermuda until weather had calmed. Photo shows boys clamoring for the necessities as women of the Police Reserve brought packages of smokes and chocolates." (quoted from the original photo caption).
    The photograph is dated 12 December 1918.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 41735

    USS Mercy
    (ID # 1305, later AH-4)

    Crew members at St. Nazaire, France, pose with a loan "thermometer", showing that the ship's crew has gone "over the top" with their subscriptions to the Victory Loan, circa late 1918 or early 1919.
    Photographed by E.J. Kelty.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 430 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103249

    USS Mercy
    (ID # 1305, later AH-4)

    Ship's Officers and Crew posed on her foredeck, circa 1919.
    Fine-screen halftone reproduction of a photograph.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 121KB; 900 x 470 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103250

    USS Mercy
    (ID # 1305, later AH-4)

    Ship's Officers and Crew posed on her foredeck, 31 May 1919.
    Fine-screen halftone reproduction of a panoramic photograph taken by H. Tarr, 666 Broadway, New York City.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 140KB; 1200 x 345 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 60261

    USS Mercy
    (ID # 1305, later AH-4)

    Scene in the ship's Surgical Ward, circa 1919.
    Note details of the folding pipe berths and bedding.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 80005

    "Samaritans Afloat"


    Poster from the "What the Navy is Doing" series, published by the Navy Recruiting Bureau, New York, circa 1918.
    It depicts USS Mercy (ID # 1305, later AH-4) and scenes aboard a Navy hospital ship, among them surgeons at work, removal of a metal fragment from a Sailor's eye, X-ray examination, use of a Stokes stretcher for hoisting a patient on board, patients in their bunks, and convalescents in the ship's solarium. Some or all of these scenes may have been taken on board Mercy.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 271KB; 1200 x 995 pixels

     


    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."


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    Page made 30 November 2005
    New image added 31 January 2006