For other ships with the same name, see USS Comfort.
USNS Comfort (T-AH-20)
USNS Comfort in Trinidad and Tobago waters in September 2019
History
United States
Name
1975–1987: Rose City
1987–1994: Comfort
1994–1996: Rose City
1996–present: Comfort
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
Callsign: NCOM
IMO number: 7390478
MMSI number: 368817000
Motto
Curare Aegra Permarinum (Care of the Sick on the Sea)[1]
Status
Active
Badge
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.
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^Little, Robert (25 January 2010). "Comfort's ability to help stretched to limit". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on 17 January 2013.
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