A call was put out to the fleet requesting cots. By 03:00 on the 14th, she had exceeded her rated bed capacity of 786. On the afternoon of the 13th, she commenced taking on sick, injured, and ambulatory cases. Proceeding via Okinawa, Sanctuary arrived off Wakayama in Task Group 56.5 on 11 September then waited as minecraft cleared the channels. She arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii four days after the Japanese acceptance of surrender terms and, on 22 August, continued on to the Far East to assist in the repatriation of former prisoner of wars (POWs).

Operation history World War II įollowing the shakedown, Sanctuary departed Norfolk on 31 July for the Pacific. Subsequently converted to a hospital ship by the Todd Shipbuilding Co., at Hoboken, New Jersey, whose citizens matched the cost of conversion with the purchase of war bonds, she was commissioned on 20 June 1945.

Alda Andrus and delivered on 30 September 1944. The vessel was launched as Sanctuary (AH-17) on 15 August 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Sanctuary was laid down as SS Marine Owl by the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Chester, Pennsylvania. Navy in World War II and the Vietnam War.

USS Sanctuary (AH-17) was a Haven-class hospital ship that served in the U.S. Combination HP/LP 600 psi (4,100 kPa) steam turbine geared engine.

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