USS ''Tranquillity'' (AH-14) was a in the service of the

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during

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. Built as ''Marine Dolphin'' in 1943 by Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. under

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contract, she was renamed ''Tranquillity'' on 22 June 1944; launched on 25 July 1944; sponsored by Miss Carol P. Meekins; acquired by the Navy from the Maritime Commission on 14 August 1944; converted into a hospital ship at

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by the Atlantic Basin Iron Works; and commissioned on 24 April 1945. With a bed capacity of 802 and a complement of 568, ''Tranquillity'' was one of the first six fully air conditioned ships in the Navy. She was equipped with of medical storage space, and a 100-bed field hospital. ''Tranquillity'' got underway from

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on 5 May 1945 for shakedown trials and assignment to the Pacific Fleet to provide hospital services, consultation, preventive medicine and casualty evacuation. ''Tranquility'' began service as a base hospital at

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and was dispatched on 3 August 1945 to the Palau Islands to receive the survivors from the and transport them to

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. ''Tranquillity'' was then assigned to assist the 3rd Fleet by returning 766 patients from Guam to the US. On 26 September 1945 she was assigned to

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to return troops from overseas to the US and was designated APH-114. On 25 March 1946 ''Tranquillity'' was designated AH-14 and was decommissioned, in reserve, on 16 July 1956. She was struck from the Naval Register on 1 September 1961. On 15 July 1974, ''Tranquillity'' was sold for scrapping to Northern Metal Co., Division of North James River Associates for $58,300.00 (PD-X-395 dated 5 June 1947) Withdrawn from the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet and delivered to Northern Metals, 5 August 1974 ''Tranquillity'' received one

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for

service.

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