The Mercy class of hospital ships are converted San Clemente-class supertankers used by the United States Navy.
Originally built in the 1970s by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, they were acquired by the Navy and converted into hospital ships, coming into service in 1986 and 1987
The ships are operated by Military Sealift Command and are designed to provide emergency, on-site care for American combatant forces, and also for use in support of disaster relief and humanitarian operations.
Each ship contains twelve fully equipped operating rooms, a 1,000-bed hospital facility, radiological services, a medical laboratory, pharmacy, optometry lab, CT scan equipment, and two oxygen-producing plants.
In March 2020, the ships were deployed to aid in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Both ships were to function as trauma centers at erstwhile-disused cruise ship terminals in San Pedro and Manhattan.
Two ships of the class were put into service:
USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) (ex SS Worth)
USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) (ex SS Rose City)
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