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_is_anchored_off_the_coast_of_Tumaco,_Colombia,_during_(cropped).jpg) USNS Comfort in Trinidad and Tobago waters in September 2019
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name |
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| Builder | National Steel and Shipbuilding |
| Laid down | 1 May 1975 (as Rose City MA-301) |
| Launched | 1 February 1976 |
| In service | 1 December 1987 (with the U.S. Navy) |
| Homeport | Naval Station Norfolk |
| Identification |
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| Motto | Curare Aegra Permarinum (Care of the Sick on the Sea)[1] |
| Status | Active |
| Badge | _crest.png) |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Mercy-class hospital ship |
| Displacement | 69,360 tons (70,470 t)[2] |
| Length | 894 ft (272 m) |
| Beam | 105 ft 7 in (32.18 m) |
| Draft | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Propulsion | Two boilers, two GE turbines, one shaft, 24,500 hp (18.3 MW) |
| Speed | 17.5 knots (20.1 mph; 32.4 km/h) |
| Capacity | 1,000 patient beds |
| Complement | 63 civilian, 956 naval hospital staff, 258 naval support staff |
| Time to activate | 5 days |
| Aviation facilities | A flight deck that can handle military helicopters (CH-53D, CH-53E, MH-53E, Mi-17, UH 60) |
USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) is a Mercy-class hospital ship of the United States Navy.
Comfort's duties include providing emergency, on-site care for U.S. combatant forces deployed in war or other operations. Operated by the Military Sealift Command, Comfort provides rapid, flexible, and mobile medical and surgical services to support Marine Corps Air-Ground Task Forces and Army and Air Force units deployed ashore, and naval amphibious task forces and battle forces afloat. Secondarily, she provides mobile surgical hospital service for use by appropriate U.S. government agencies in disaster or humanitarian relief or limited humanitarian care incident to these missions or peacetime military operations. Comfort is more advanced than a field hospital but less capable than a traditional hospital on land.[3]
From 30 March to 30 April 2020, Comfort was stationed in New York City to help combat the city's coronavirus pandemic by treating non-coronavirus, and later on, coronavirus-positive patients.[4]
- ^ @ameeicsnavy (4 November 2010). "America's Navy — Curare Aegra Permarinum means "Care of the Sick on" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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