This thread is about large hospital ships of the world. Non-Chinese because we can have a separate thread specifically for Chinese hospital ships.
When I say large, I mean any Hospital Ship over 16,000 tons.
I will start with the USNS Mercy Class hospital ships of the US Navy.
These ar HUGE hospital ships displacing over 65,000 tons, almost 900 feet long, and with a beam of 106 feet.
There are two of them:
USNS Mercy, T-AH-19, based out of San Diego, CA
USNS Comfort, T-AH-20 based out of Norfolk, VA
Next to the US Navy nuclear powered aircraft carriers, they are the largest US Navy ships afloat.
In July 1984, during the Reagan years, the US Navy decided it needed larger and better hospital ship accommodations. So, the US Navy purchased a San Clemente-class tanker, the SS Worth, that had been built by National Steel in 1976, and did a complete conversion and overall of her into a modern, very well equipped, and very large hospital ship.
She was launched in 1985, and then commissioned and then commissioned in November 1986, 28 months after her rebuild commenced. While this was occurring, a year after the start of the USNS Mercy, a second San Clemente-class tanker was purchased and converted into the USNS Comfort, which was commissioned in 1987,
They are extremely well outfitted with the following:
Operating Rooms: 12
Intensive care wards: 80 beds
Recovery wards: 20 beds
Intermediate care wards: 280 beds
Light care wards: 120 beds
Limited care wards: 500 beds
Total Patient Capacity: 1000 beds
Emergency/Trauma Casualty reception,
Sterile receiving,
Radiological services,
Main laboratory plus satellite lab,
Medical supply/pharmacy,
Physical therapy and burn care,
Dental services,
Optometry/lens lab,
Morgue,
Laundry,
Oxygen producing plants (two),
Medical Photography,
Four distilling plants making drinking water from sea water
- 300,000 US gallons (1,100,000 l; 250,000 imp gal) per day
See my Flickr Album:
Here are a few more pictures. Lots more at the link.
When I say large, I mean any Hospital Ship over 16,000 tons.
I will start with the USNS Mercy Class hospital ships of the US Navy.
These ar HUGE hospital ships displacing over 65,000 tons, almost 900 feet long, and with a beam of 106 feet.
There are two of them:
USNS Mercy, T-AH-19, based out of San Diego, CA
USNS Comfort, T-AH-20 based out of Norfolk, VA
Next to the US Navy nuclear powered aircraft carriers, they are the largest US Navy ships afloat.
In July 1984, during the Reagan years, the US Navy decided it needed larger and better hospital ship accommodations. So, the US Navy purchased a San Clemente-class tanker, the SS Worth, that had been built by National Steel in 1976, and did a complete conversion and overall of her into a modern, very well equipped, and very large hospital ship.
She was launched in 1985, and then commissioned and then commissioned in November 1986, 28 months after her rebuild commenced. While this was occurring, a year after the start of the USNS Mercy, a second San Clemente-class tanker was purchased and converted into the USNS Comfort, which was commissioned in 1987,
They are extremely well outfitted with the following:
Operating Rooms: 12
Intensive care wards: 80 beds
Recovery wards: 20 beds
Intermediate care wards: 280 beds
Light care wards: 120 beds
Limited care wards: 500 beds
Total Patient Capacity: 1000 beds
Emergency/Trauma Casualty reception,
Sterile receiving,
Radiological services,
Main laboratory plus satellite lab,
Medical supply/pharmacy,
Physical therapy and burn care,
Dental services,
Optometry/lens lab,
Morgue,
Laundry,
Oxygen producing plants (two),
Medical Photography,
Four distilling plants making drinking water from sea water
- 300,000 US gallons (1,100,000 l; 250,000 imp gal) per day
See my Flickr Album:
Here are a few more pictures. Lots more at the link.