SS Hope
{{other ships|Hope (ship)}}
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SS Hope was a hospital ship operated by Project HOPE.{{cite web |url=http://www.projecthope.org/about/history.html |title=History of Project Hope |accessdate=2013-08-20|publisher=Project Hope}} This vessel was originally a US Navy hospital ship, {{USS|Consolation|AH-15}}. Consolation was donated to Project Hope in 1958, and under its new name served from 1960 until 1974, when she was retired. Hope was not replaced, and the emphasis of Project HOPE switched entirely to land-based operations. The project was founded by William B. Walsh.
List of voyages
While in charitable service from 1960 to 1974, this ship voyaged around the world:{{cite web |first1=G. Terry |author1=G. Terry Sharrer, Ph. D. |title=Project Hope / Voyages of S. S. HOPE, 1960-1974 |url=https://americanhistory.si.edu/hope/02hope.htm |website=HOPE: Health Opportunities for People Everywhere |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127223940/https://americanhistory.si.edu/hope/02hope.htm |archive-date=27 November 2020|publisher=National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution) |access-date=25 October 2022}}
- Voyage 1, to Indonesia and South Vietnam, September 1960 – September 1961
- Voyage 2, to Peru, May 1962 – March 1963
- Voyage 3, to Ecuador, November 1963 – September 1964
- Voyage 4, to Guinea, September 1964 – September 1965
- Voyage 5, to Nicaragua, January 1966 – November 1966
- Voyage 6, to Colombia, February 1967 – December 1967
- Voyage 7, to Ceylon (Sri Lanka), February 1968 – March 1969
- Voyage 8, to Tunisia, August 1969 – August 1970
- Voyage 9, to the West Indies, January 1971 – November 1971
- Voyages 10 and 11, to Brazil, February 1972 – March 1974
Features
One special piece of equipment was a machine called the Iron Cow. Using distilled seawater, combined with milk solids and butterfat, it was capable of turning out 1,000 gallons of milk daily.{{cite book |last1=Savage |first1=Stephen |title=And Then Came Hope |date=May 4, 2021 |publisher=Neal Porter Books |isbn=978-0823445189 |page=34}}
This 15,000-ton ship had a pharmacy, three operating rooms, a radiology department, an isolation ward, and closed-circuit television for viewing operations. The medical crew typically consisted of 150 nurses and 100 doctors, who taught American practices in various medical specialties, to colleagues around the world.
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |title=A Ship called Hope |year=1964 |first=William B. |last=Walsh |authorlink=William B. Walsh |oclc=1374141 |publisher=Dutton }}
- {{cite book |title= Yanqui, come back! The story of Hope in Peru |date=1966 |first=William B. |last=Walsh |authorlink=William B. Walsh |author-mask=2 |publisher=Dutton |oclc=881451 }}
- {{cite book |title=Hope in the East: the mission to Ceylon |url=https://archive.org/details/hopeineastmissio00wals |url-access=registration |year=1970 |first=William B. |last=Walsh |authorlink=William B. Walsh |author-mask=2 |publisher=Dutton}}
- {{cite book |title=Medicine and the satellite: a description of the 1973 satellite experiments aboard the S.S. Hope |year=1974 |first=William B. |last=Walsh |authorlink=William B. Walsh |author-mask=2 |last2=Meltzer |first2=Richard S |last3=Lucey |first3=Dennis |publisher=Project Hope}}
- {{cite AV media |title=Title unknown |medium=Documentary film |publisher=NBC |first=Fred (director) |last=Rheinstein |first2=Ralph |last2=Bellamy |authorlink2=Ralph Bellamy}}
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