[Hospital ship "Consolation" leaving San Francisco Bay for Seattle to be refitted as a medical training ship]

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Local identifier: AAD-8737
Title: [Hospital ship "Consolation" leaving San Francisco Bay for Seattle to be refitted as a medical training ship]
Date: 1960 Apr. 8
Issuance: monographic
Associated Group: Associated Press
San Francisco News-Call Bulletin
Collection: San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection
Type of Resource: still image
Physical Description: 1 photographic print : b&w.
Form: graphic
Use and Reproduction: Permission to use this image must be obtained from the San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library. www.sfpl.org/permissions.
Note: Folder: S.F. Ships-Hope.
On back: "(FX2) SAN FRANCISCO, April 8--LEAVES GOLDEN GATE--The former hospital ship Consolation, recently de-mothballed, leaves San Francisco Bay today under tow for Seattle to be refitted as a medical training ship. It will be renamed the SS Hope and will sail in September to Indonesia for a six-month stay. Later it will go to Vietnam. The Hope will have a staff of 15 physicians, two dentists, 25 nurses and 30 auxiliary personnel. Volunteer teams of up to 35 physicians will be flown to the ship on a rotating basis for tours of four months. Golden Gate Bridge at right. (APWIREPHOTO)(s61330rhh) 1960."
"Associated Press WirePhoto."
Language (code): eng
Genre: graphic
LCSH Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Local subjects: Ships--Hope.
Bibliographic Number: .b10349935
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12352/islandora:149994