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List of hospitals and hospital ships of the Royal Navy

List of hospitals and hospital ships of the Royal Navy

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HMHS is an acronym for His/Her Majesty's Hospital Ship.

Early modern era

Seventeenth century

The earliest record of British hospital ship was Goodwill, which briefly accompanied a Royal Navy squadron in the Mediterranean in 1608 or 1609.[1][2] From 1665 the Royal Navy formally maintained two hospital ships at any time, these being either hired merchant ship or elderly sixth rates, modified from their original design by the removal of internal bulkheads and addition of ports cut through the deck and hull for ventilation. The limit of two hospital ships at a time remained in place until the Nine Years' War at century's end. In 1691 there were four hospital ships in service, rising to five in 1693 and six in 1696.[1]

In addition to their sailing crew, these seventeenth century hospital ships were staffed by a surgeon and four surgeon's mates. Standard medical supplies were bandages, soap, needles and bedpans, and patients were issued with a clean pair of sheets. Infectious patients were quarantined from the general population behind a sheet of canvas. The quality of food was very poor. In the 1690s the surgeon aboard Siam complained that the meat was in an advanced state of putrefaction, the biscuits were weevil-ridden and bitter, and the bread was so hard that it stripped the skin from patient's mouths.[1]

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Eighteenth century

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Boxer Rebellion

Second Boer War

  • HMHS Avoca
  • HMHS Dunera
  • HMHS Lismore Castle
  • HMHS Maine
  • HMHS Nubia
  • HMHS Orcana
  • HMHS Princess of Wales
  • HMHS Simla
  • HMHS Spartan
  • HMHS Trojan

World War I

Russian Civil War

Former Royal Naval Hospitals

World War II

  • HMHS Aba
  • HMHS Amarapoora
  • HMHS Amsterdam
  • HMHS Atlantis
  • HMHS Brighton
  • HMHS Cap St Jacques
  • HMHS Chantilly
  • HMHS Dinard
  • HMHS Dorsetshire
  • HMHS Duke of Argyll
  • HMHS Duke of Lancaster
  • HMHS Duke of Rothesay
  • HMHS El Nil
  • HMHS Gerusalemme
  • HMHS Isle of Guernsey
  • HMHS Isle of Jersey
  • HMHS Karapara
  • HMHS Karoa
  • HMHS Lady Connaught
  • HMHS Lady Nelson
  • HMHS Leinster
  • HMHS Letitia
  • HMHS Llandovery Castle
  • HMHS Maid of Kent
  • HMHS Manunda
  • HMHS Maunganui
  • HMHS Naushon
  • HMHS Newfoundland
  • HMHS Oxfordshire
  • HMHS Paris
  • HMHS Prague
  • HMHS St Andrew
  • HMHS St David
  • HMHS St Julien
  • HMHS Tairea
  • HMHS Talamba
  • HMHS Takliwa
  • HMHS Vasna
  • HMHS Vita
  • HMHS Wanganella
  • HMHS Worthing

Falklands War hospital ships

RFA hospital ships

Royal Fleet Auxiliary hospital ships:

Citations

Notes

  1. Or Loyal Katherine[3]
  2. Siam served as a hospital ship twice, from 1693 to 1697 and, after reconditioning, from 1702-1703.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Sutherland Shaw, J.J. (1936). "The Hospital Ship, 1608–1740". The Mariner's Mirror. 22 (4): 422–426. doi:10.1080/00253359.1936.10657206.
  2. [2]
    Oppenheim, M. (1896). A History of the Administration of the Royal Navy and of Merchant Shipping in Relation to the Navy. Vol. 1. The Bodley Head. p. 188. OCLC 506062953.
  3. [3]
    Winfield, Rif (2009). British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and fates. Seaforth. p. 276. ISBN 9781848320406.
  4. [4]
    Henneberry, Allan (2008). Wreck Diving Tales: Diving Nova Scotia's Shipwrecks. Atlantis Marine. pp. 1–5. ISBN 9780595613564.
  5. [5]
    Johnson, Jonathan C. (2016). "Canadian Military Hospitals at Sea 1914-1919" (PDF). Royal Canadian Medical Service Association. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
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