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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- SHIPS of the UNITED STATES ARMY --

Relief (Hospital Ship, 1898-1902)

The U.S. Army Hospital Ship Relief was built at Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1896 as the civilian passenger ship John Inglis. She was acquired by the Army in 1898 and served off Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Following that conflict, Relief was employed in the Pacific, and transported sick and wounded men from the Philippines to the U.S. The Army transferred her to the U.S. Navy in November 1902. Beginning in 1908, she saw active naval service as USS Relief (1908-1919).

This page features our only views of the U.S. Army Hospital Ship Relief.

For additional views of this ship, taken following her transfer to the Navy, see: USS Relief (1908-1919).


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

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

Photo #: NH 92845

U.S. Army Hospital Ship Relief


Photographed at the time of the Spanish-American War, 1898.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 44061

U.S. Army Hospital Ship Relief


In San Francisco Bay, California, with 300 wounded soldiers from Manila on board, 2 August 1899.
The tug Fearless, of San Francisco, is alongside her starboard quarter.

Courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 455 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 92844

U.S. Army Hospital Ship Relief


View in one of the ship's wards, 1898, with a large skylight in the upper right.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 126KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 92846

U.S. Army Hospital Ship Relief


Nurses of the ship's complement, while she was serving in Cuban waters, 1898.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 108KB; 740 x 625 pixels

 

For additional views of this ship, taken following her transfer to the Navy, see: USS Relief (1908-1919).


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


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23 January 2000