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 ...

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

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 ...

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 1,000-bed US Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort is only treating a small number of patients in New York City, but the military is trying to change that. The massive hospital ship, which deployed ...

The Navy ship’s mission in New York now comes with a new level of complexity, raising questions about whether it’s equipped for the task. By Geoff Ziezulewicz Before the U.S. Navy hospital ...

The USNS Comfort hospital ship arrived in New York Harbor on Monday morning to aid in the coronavirus fight. Dispatched Saturday by President Trump from Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia ...

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 ...

China's domestically built 10,000-ton-class hospital ship, the Auspicious Ark, conducted a multi-element, full-process medical rescue drill in a certain area of the Yellow Sea recently ...

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 ...