About a month ago, with Los Angeles girding for a potentially crippling surge of coronavirus cases, a massive white Navy hospital ship chugged into port: a powerful symbol of the government's response ...

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 highly ...

In 1949, the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded, Sick, and Shipwrecked Members of the Armed Forces set out to prevent hospital ships from becoming the targets of ...

The Military Sealift Command’s hospital ship Comfort navigates during Comfort Exercise 2018 on May 12, 2018. (MC3 Jonathan Clay/Navy) When the Navy hospital ship Comfort deployed to Haiti in 2010 ...

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 spring ...

( NewsNation) — Mercy Ships is a non-governmental organization providing health care to nations in East and West Africa. The ...

Mercy Ships ( concludes a momentous year across its two hospital ships, the Africa Mercy® and the Global Mercy™. Operating ...

The land masses we call home only make up about one-third of the surface of the Earth. This leaves an enormous amount of water, on which we travel in small yachts for fun, vacation on cruise ships -- ...

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About a month ago, as Los Angeles girded for a potentially crippling surge of coronavirus cases, the massive white Navy hospital ship Mercy chugged into port, a powerful symbol of the government’s ...

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. The Navy hospital ships deployed to New York and Los Angeles last month to relieve hospitals overwhelmed by ...