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Remembering USS Relief (AH 1), the Navy's Floating Fortress of Health


The hospital ship RELIEF was in commission from 1920 to 1947.


Sterilizing apparatus on board, about 1920.


Medical officer with a patient in the ship's sickbay, about 1920.


Nurses with their patients, on deck in March 1921.


Some of her nursing staff, March 1921.
Principal Chief Nurse J. Beatrice Bowman is standing in the center, 4th from right.


Navy nurses dining in their wardroom, circa March 1945.

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1863 — In an evaluation of the usefulness of ironclads in a planned assault against Charleston, South Carolina, Montauk engages Fort McAllister in Georgia. The ship is struck repeatedly without damage, but the inaccuracy and slow rate of fire of its guns diminishes its offensive effectiveness. Further evaluations occur on 1 February.


USS MONTAUK sinking C.S. Privateer RATTLESNAKE, in the Ogeechee River, Georgia, February 28, 1863.
Painting by Alexander C. Stuart.


USS Montauk (1862-1904) - at left, and USS Lehigh (1863-1904) - at right
Laid up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, circa late 1902 or early 1903.


Line engraving published in The Soldier in Our Civil War, Volume II, page 187. It depicts scenes on board the
monitor, probably at about the time she was completed in December 1862. The views include a view in the
officers' ward room, with negro messmen at work, and several vignettes of ordnance equipment.

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1865 - Confederate torpedo boat St. Patrick strikes the side-wheel gunboat USS Octorara, off Mobile Bay, but her spar torpedo fails to explode.


USS Octorara (1862-1866) Watercolor by Alex Stuart. Courtesy of the Navy Art Collection, Washington, DC.


Incident on board the 'Octorara', January 26, 1865
Line engraving published in Harper's Weekly, February 1865, depicting the attack on USS Octorara
by the Confederate torpedo boat St. Patrick, in Mobile Bay, Alabama.

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100 Year Anniversary of the Navy Historical Section

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1911 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.


Terry, prior to World War I, in harbor with her crew assembled on deck. (Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph NH 43765
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