Ordered to Tsingtao, China, on 10 March 1946, she arrived the following day, and then returned to Shanghai on the 18th, where she remained until 15 October 1946. From 30 September 1945 through 10 March 1946, she operated at Shanghai as a base hospital, attached to Service Squadron 10. The next day she stood out of the harbor to ride out a typhoon.įollowing a week at anchor in Buckner Bay, Repose steamed for the Philippines, but two days out she was diverted to Shanghai, China. Then, scheduled to steam for the Philippines via Honolulu, she was diverted to Okinawa, arriving at Buckner Bay on 15 September. Repose embarked 700 patients at Pearl Harbor on 7 August 1945 for transport to San Francisco, Calif., where the ship called (15-24 August). She departed Norfolk on 8 July, transited the Panama Canal, and steamed for Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, on 15 July, arriving on the 29th. Sailing for Norfolk, Va., on 6 June, she underwent shakedown off the Virginia coast. Tests and drills commenced on 1 June in Long Island Sound, and on 3 June Repose put into the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, to take on additional stores.
The same day Repose shifted berths to take on stores, and on she completed fitting out at Bayonne, N.J. Upon completion of her conversion to Navy use, she was commissioned on, Capt. McIntire, Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and acquired and placed in service on 14 September 1944 for transportation to her conversion yard, Bethlehem Steel Co., Shipbuilding Division, 56th Street Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y. Hull 747) launched on 8 August 1944 sponsored by Mrs. Marine Beaver was laid down on 22 October 1943 at Chester, Pa., by the Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., under a Maritime Commission contract (M.C. (AH-16: displacement 11,141 length 520' beam 71'6" draft 24' (limiting) speed 18.7 knots complement 564 class Haven type C4-S-B2)
Repose was given a name in keeping with the mission of hospital ships.