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 hospital ship by the ...

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 ...

NEW YORK -- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said after meeting with President Donald Trump that the USNS Comfort would be leaving, but testing capacity would be increased. The USNS Comfort has been docked ...

NEW YORK -- The Navy hospital ship sent to relieve stress on New York City hospitals at the height the pandemic is discharging or transferring its last 12 patients this weekend as it nears the end of ...

A crew member aboard the Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort tested positive for the coronavirus, and several others have gone into isolation, the Navy said Tuesday, the latest setback in the ship’s ...

WEST SIDE, Manhattan -- The USNS Comfort sailed into New York Harbor on Monday as the Jacob Javits Center prepared to open as a medical facility to increase hospital capacity in New York City amid the ...

China is deploying its new naval hospital ship, the CNS Silk Road Ark, on a 200-day “humanitarian” mission to Latin America and the Caribbean. -While framed as a goodwill tour, the move is a ...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- The hospital ship USS Comfort will stop excluding patients who have the coronavirus, officials have announced. The Navy ship has sat largely empty off the west side of ...

People in New York flocked to watch the USNS Comfort dock on Monday morning as it arrived to help the state as existing hospitals become overwhelmed by the number of patients with COVID-19, the ...

Vice President Mike Pence sends off the ship from Miami on Tuesday. The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort is beginning a five-month humanitarian mission to the Caribbean, Central and South America ...