Hospital Ship

Definition: Hospital Ship

Hospital Ship

Noun

1. A ship built to serve as a hospital; used for wounded in wartime.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Crosswords: Hospital Ship

St. John's Hospital ship providing fresh air to the sick poor. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Arimosdu Maru (Hospital Ship) : Former Japanese hospital ship during war, now evacuating Japanese troops from the Philipines. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[U.S. Army Hospital Ship Missouri]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

USS Relief (Hospital Ship) : Interior view- Hot Air Cabinet in Hydro-Theraputic Room. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Main building of the hospital, a converted warehouse, while Dr. Horace Warnder was Surgeon in Charge during the Civil War, as sketched by William Groth. This hospital was staffed by the Nursing Sisters of the Holy Cross, St. Mary's Convent, South Bend, Indiana. It also served as staffing base for the Navy hospital ship USS Red Rover. In 1963, this building was a warehouse of the Cairo River & Rail Co. Credit: NAVY.

Presents the Purple Heart to Corporal John K. Galuszka, USMC, on board a hospital ship at Pearl Harbor, 17 December 1943. Corporal Galuszka had been wounded during the Gilberts Operation. Credit: NAVY.

Congratulates Private First Class Carl Emanuel Magnuson, USMC, after presenting him with the Purple Heart medal for wounds received in the invasion of the Gilbert Islands. The ceremony took place on board a hospital ship at Pearl Harbor, on 17 December 1943. Credit: NAVY.

Line engraving after a drawing by Theodore R. Davis, published in "Harper's Weekly", January-June 1863, page 300, depicting a scene in the ward. Red Rover served as the U.S. Navy's hospital ship on the Western Rivers during the Civil War. Credit: NAVY.

At the Olongapo Naval Station, Philippine Islands, while serving as stationary hospital ship, circa 1909-1919. Credit: NAVY.

U.S.S. hospital ship Solace. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Danish

hospitalsskib. (various references)

Dutch

hospitaalschip. (various references)

French

navire-hôpital, navire hospitalier, bâtiment hospitalier. (various references)

German

Arztboot. (various references)

Greek 

νοσοκομείο-σκάφος, πλωτό νοσοκομείο. (various references)

Hungarian

kórházhajó (lazaret, lazaretto). (various references)

Italian

nave ospedale. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

病院船 (a hospital ship). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

びょうい�"せ�" (a hospital ship). (various references)

Manx

lhong lheihys. (various references)

Pig Latin

ospitalhay ipshay

Portuguese

navio-hospital, equipamento hospitalar (hospital equipment, hospital facilities, hospital provision, hospitals). (various references)

Romanian

nava-spital, navã sanitarã. (various references)

Russian 

госпитальное судно (hospital-ship). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sanitetski brod. (various references)

Spanish

nave-hospital, buque hospital. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: halitosis, hospitals.

-4 letters: alphosis, apostils, haplosis, hospital, hospitia, palships, phthisis, sapphist, shiplaps, topsails.

-5 letters: apostil, hippish, hipshot, holists, laptops, lithias, palship, papists, pastils, pistils, pistols, postals, saltish, shilpit, shiplap, sophist, spilths, spitals, tahsils, topsail.

+3 letters: philanthropists.

+5 letters: pathophysiologies, physiopathologies.

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