The USNS Comfort set sail from Naval Station Norfolk Friday morning on a three-month deployment as part of the Continuing ...

The U.S. Navy’s massive hospital ships will soon be replaced by smaller, more accessible ships that can move closer to shore when necessary, all while caring for wounded troops. Armies have used ...

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 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 ...

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 hospital ship was deployed as part of the federal response to the storm and its aftermath that has left 3.4 million Americans facing power and communications outages, water and food shortages ...

Sailors transport the last patient off the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) for relocation to a local hospital for the appropriate level of follow-on care on April 26, 2020. US Navy Photo ...

It’s a question our readers started asking once the severity of the present COVID-19 surge became clear: Where is the massive military hospital ship that docked in the Port of Los Angeles last ...

The U.S.N.S. Comfort, the massive hospital ship that has been docked at Pier 90 for the past three weeks, deploys only for major missions: combat (Persian Gulf, 2002) and disaster relief (Haiti ...

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 ...