USS Solace (AH-5)
USS Solace | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Solace |
| Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, Virginia |
| Launched | 11 December 1926 |
| Acquired | 22 July 1940 |
| Commissioned | 9 August 1941 |
| Decommissioned | 27 March 1946 |
| Stricken | 21 May 1946 |
| Identification | IMO number: 5018131 |
| Honors & awards | 7 battle stars (World War II) |
| Fate | Sold for commercial service, 16 April 1948, Scrapped 1981 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Hospital ship |
| Displacement | 8,900 long tons (9,000 t) |
| Length | 409 ft 4 in (124.76 m) |
| Beam | 62 ft (19 m) |
| Draft | 20 ft 7 in (6.27 m) |
| Speed | 18 kn (21 mph; 33 km/h) |
| Capacity | 418 patients |
| Complement | 466 |
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The second USS Solace (AH-5) was built in 1927 as the passenger ship SS Iroquois by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, Virginia. The liner was acquired by the Navy from the Clyde Mallory Steamship Line on 22 July 1940, renamed Solace (AH-5); converted into a hospital ship at the Atlantic Basin Iron Works, Brooklyn, N.Y., and was commissioned on 9 August 1941, Captain Benjamin Perlman in command.