Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group. Decommissioned, 1 July 1947, at San Diego, CA. It appears that she was then sold and converted to being a chemical carrier before being scrapped in 1987. Reclassified Hospital Ship (AH-12) in October 1946. She later served during the Korean War as a hospital ship, and finished her career as a floating Hospital in Long Beach, California. She arrived off the destroyed Japanese city on and brought on board a group of allied ex-prisoners of war, some of them suffering from the effects of the atomic blast. An Illustrated Reference to 39 United States Military Vessels. Able to train Army units in Japan on amphibious operations prior to the Korean War. On, just prior to the Japanese surrender, Haven sailed to Okinawa and Nagasaki. The hospital ship USS Consolation (AH-15) remained in the Hungnam harbor after the 1st MASH departed. Originally built as the SS Marine Hawk, she was converted to hospital ship. 2.1 Nagasaki to Okinawa 13 - 20 September 1945.
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