originally built as a US Navy hospital ship, USS Consolation in 1945. It was decommissioned in 1955, but served again between 1960 and 1974, when it was operated by Project HOPE. The SS Hope had ...

The USNS Comfort will embark on a three-month goodwill mission, providing medical aid in Latin America as part of "Continuing ...

Two US Navy hospital ships sent to ports in California and New York will help ease the burden of hospitals immersed in treatment of coronavirus patients. The USNS Mercy reached Los Angeles on ...

The bombs which fell on Pearl Harbor caught the U.S. with only two hospital ships to its name. By this year’s end it will have 24. TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod described one of them in ...

Earlier this week President Donald Trump announced he would be sending the Navy hospital ship Comfort home from New York City, cutting short a highly-touted but anticlimactic mission. USNS Comfort ...

The USNS Comfort arrives in New York Monday. (PO2 Cory J. Mendenhall/Coast Guard) The USNS hospital ships Mercy and Comfort have treated fewer than 20 patients combined since the ships arrived in ...

This Expeditionary Medical Ship will be designed to offer medical care where larger hospital ships cannot go. Before the Navy builds this newer class, it will learn to fill the role by adapting a ...

Navy nurses scrambled to the hospital ship Consolation, rushing to the Far East where 72 hours straight of surgery greeted their arrival. And immediately, emergency care on crowded Air Force ...

Hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) sails off the coast of Jeremie, Haiti, Dec. 11, 2022. US Navy Photo Two sailors were injured after a man overboard incident while transferring to USNS Comfort ...

By Michael Schwirtz Such were the expectations for the Navy hospital ship U.S.N.S. Comfort that when it chugged into New York Harbor this week, throngs of people, momentarily forgetting the ...