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USS REPOSE AH-16

Archival Materials

Last Updated January 7, 2001


Commissioning Program 1945 Click here to see details of the ship's dedication ceremony and a complete list of the first crew.  This document provided by Laurie Colley Raciappa, who was one of the youngest nurses (Ensign F.L. Colley) aboard the maiden voyage of Repose.


Click here to see an enlargement of this clipping from a Shanghai newspaper c. October 1945 that describes the visit of USS Repose to that port.


Scapel and Line, Volume 1, No. 5, 26 September 1945

Click here to view a copy of the Repose ship's newspaper

published 10 days after the Okinawa typhoon.

Scapel and Line, page 1