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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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