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Photo # NH 98753:  USS Samaritan in San Francisco Bay, California, between August 1945 and June 1946.

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USS Samaritan (AH-10), 1921-1948.
Formerly USS Chaumont (AP-5)

Following her August 1943 decommissioning, the elderly transport Chaumont (AP-5) was converted to a hospital ship at Seattle, Washington. Renamed Samaritan (AH-10), she was recommissioned in March 1944. After two round-trip voyages between San Francisco and Hawaii, she arrived at Kwajalein in June to treat casualties from the Saipan invasion. In July she came to Saipan to embark patients for evacuation to Noumea, and she returned to Saipan in August for duty as a receiving hospital. Samaritan then served as base hospital at Ulithi from late 1944 to February 1945.

Samaritan was off Iwo Jima a day after the inital landings there in February 1945 and soon left for Saipan with over 600 patients. She made two more trips to Iwo Jima to evacuate casualties to Guam. The hospital ship arrived off Okinawa in mid-April and through the end of June alternated stays off that island with evacuation voyages to Saipan. In July she steamed from Saipan to Pearl Harbor, then delivered patients from these locations to San Francisco.

Postwar, Samaritan sailed from San Francisco in September to Sasebo, Japan, where she provided hospital facilities to occupation forces until March 1946. She returned to San Francisco in April and was decommissioned there in June. Stricken from the list of Naval vessels in July, she was turned over to the Maritime Commission in August 1946 and was delivered to a scrapping firm in January 1948.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Samaritan (AH-10), and provides links to pictures of her as USS Chaumont (AP-5).

For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Chaumont (AP-5), 1921-1948.


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    Photo #: 80-G-369567

    USS Samaritan (AH-10)


    In the Pacific in 1944 or 1945.

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

    Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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

     
    Photo #: NH 99497

    USS Samaritan
    (AH-10)

    Off Iwo Jima in February or March 1945.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98753

    USS Samaritan
    (AH-10)

    In San Francisco Bay, California, between August 1945 and June 1946.

    Donation of Boatswain's Mate First Class Robert G. Tippins, USN (Retired), 2003.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 555 pixels

     

    For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Chaumont (AP-5), 1921-1948.


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


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