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Solace (AH-5): Photographs


These photographs were selected to show the original configuration of this class and major subsequent modifications. For more views see the former NHHC (now Hyperwar) Online Library of Selected Images and the NavSource Photo Archive.

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S.S. Shawnee

At New York in a pre-World War II image.
A heavily retouched version of this image was used to represent S.S. Iroquois, which became USS Solace (AH-5) in late 1940. Shawnee served as an Army transport in World War II.

Photo No. None
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USS Solace (AH-5)

Probably photographed in 1941 soon after completion of conversion. Her second stack, a dummy, was removed during her Navy conversion.

Photo No. Unknown
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USS Solace (AH-5)

Photographed circa 1941 in Hawaiian waters.
She arrived at Pearl Harbor on 27 October 1941 and handled hundreds of casualties on 7 December 1941 during the Japanese attack there.

Photo No. 19-N-26324
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command


 
USS Solace (AH-5)

Alongside USS Haven (AH-12) at Pearl Harbor between 13 and 16 July 1945.

Photo No. 80-G-354889
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command