From Wikipedia.
This is the ship that carried Leon D. Robinson to the navy hospital at New York City after he was wounded at Vera Cruz.
Hospital ship used in the Spanish-American War and World War I. Commissioned in 1898. returned the wounded and ill to the United States from Cuba during the Spanish-American War From 1909-1921, served with the Atlantic Fleet.
There is a postcard of the USS Solace during the Mexican Revolution while at Vera Cruz.
This was not the USS Solace (AH-5) that was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. This ship was commissioned from 1941-1946.
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