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

Tucked inside the recently passed Defense Department budget for 2023 is funding for a new kind of Navy medical ship – one built to operate more like an ambulance than a hospital. The ship's ...

Military action often means casualties, which highlights a crucial, unique type of ship often employed by navies: the hospital ship. Just as a cruise ship is often referred to as a floating city ...

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 ...

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