Prestigious and massive ships of the transatlantic lines were used, such as the imposing RMS Aquitania and HMHS Britannic. Famous Hospital ships in WW1ĭuring the first world war, a legion of hospital ships, converted from liners and packet boats, big and small, are used on many fronts, but in particular in the Mediterranean, Black sea and the Dardanelles. There was no more treatment on board than on any regular ship, so this was only a safety measure, not a conversion or change in use. The term was also used as a means of blocus, applied for example in the case of Cuba during the missile crisis in 1962. The quarantine was invented and applied at first to avoid contamination of ports if an arriving ship declared illness cases, and as a general practice of the time, a 40 days confinement of the crew, even if the ship was anchored in the harbor area Hence the “quarantine” from the French “quarante”, forty (days). Since the great black plague has been carried in Europe by a boat from the Byzantine Empire, ports are known centers and starting points of infection. HMS Melbourne, second Opium war The question of naval quarantine The same year in UK, the Royal Hamadryad Seamen’s Hospital is funded. The paradox was that after regulation, the later was illuminated and revealed to the Japanese the position of the Russian fleet at Tsushima.
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