NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – After returning in August from a 78-day humanitarian mission, the crew of the USNS Comfort was full of energy. Formerly an oil tanker before it was converted into a Mercy-class ...

Few vessels in the world carry as much symbolic and strategic weight as the U.S. Navy’s hospital ships. Painted brilliant ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – The USNS Comfort, a U.S. Navy Mercy-class hospital ship, returned to Naval Station Norfolk Sunday morning following a 78-day humanitarian mission as part of the U.S. Naval Forces ...

NAVAL STATION NORFOLK, Va. — The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort returned to Naval Station Norfolk on Sunday after completing a summer deployment across the Caribbean, Central and South America.

For 56 days in the Persian Gulf, Comfort served as a floating trauma center and provided expert medical care to nearly 700 wounded U.S. military personnel. 2005 Hurricanes Katrina and Rita The USNS ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y -- The Military Sealift Command hospital ship, the USNS Comfort, steams into New York City under the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge at 9:21 a.m., Monday morning. The USNS Comfort is a ...

U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort departed its homeport here yesterday in support of the humanitarian civic assistance mission Continuing Promise 2011. Continuing Promise is a five-month mission to ...

PUERTO PLATA, Dominican Republic — The Norfolk-based hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) arrived in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday, its fourth of six stops on "Continuing Promise 2025", a ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The U.S. Navy's 1,000-bed military hospital ship is preparing to set out on a goodwill mission in Latin America. The Mercy-class hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) is set to embark on ...