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On October 16, 1965 – 57 years ago yesterday – the United States Navy hospital ship USS Repose was recommissioned for service in the Vietnam War. For more than a decade the ship had been moored with the reserve fleet in Suisun Bay in northern California.
World War II/1940sThe ship was...
Upcoming Global Mercy commissioning events confirmed for Dakar around Africa Day
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, March 16, 2022/ — The 37,000-gt Global Mercy was welcomed in Rotterdam, Netherlands over the last two weeks as the ship opened its doors to the public and global dignitaries for tours before it will begin active service in May in Dakar, Senegal – the first of many missions in the next 50 years on the African continent.
With Senegalese ministerial delegates in attendance, the official...
Stena RoRo is leading the project for the construction of the Global Mercy, the world’s largest civilian hospital ship. After several years of construction at the Tianjin Xingang shipyard in northern China, the final test, the official sea trial, has now been completed with good results. The shipyard will present the ship for delivery this summer and the vessel will then sail to Antwerp in Belgium on its...
https://allaboutshipping.co.uk/2021/05/10/sea-trial-completed-for-hospital-ship-global-mercy/
http://mfame.guru/are-the-floating-hospitals-for-coronavirus-serving-their-purpose/