Mercy Cruise Ship
This will double our ability to provide free surgeries and increase our capacity to train local doctors in the communities we serve.
Mercy cruise ship. The 174m-long Global Mercy ship has a beam of 286m and a draft of 61m. Cruise Lines International Association CLIA has selected Mercy Ships as their Charity of Choice. We have found a powerful way to share our blessings.
Through this partnership CLIA will work with Mercy Ships to further endorse their efforts to deliver healthcare to developing nations. It Starts with a Location. Navys two Mercy-class hospital ships have been deployed USNS Mercy to the Port of Los Angeles and Comfort to New York Harbor.
Global Mercy design and features. Mercy Ships is an international charity. Mercy Ships is planning to return the Africa Mercy to Dakar in Senegal in 2021 where it was when Covid-19 hit and had to leave a couple of months early.
Mercy Ships is doing a fantastic job and with the new ship their capacity to provide free medical care to many extremely vulnerable people will be more than twice as large says Per Westling who in 2017 visited the sister ship Africa Mercy when it was based in Madagascar. Contact us for more. USNS Mercy arriving at the Port of Los Angeles cruise terminal March 2020 USN file image Published Dec 31 2020 401 PM by The Maritime Executive.
At any given time over its 40-year history Mercy Ships has had between 1 and 3 ships in service. Stationed in San Diego California Mercy primarily operates in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Currently the Africa Mercy is the only Mercy Ship in service but it represents greater capacity than all prior hospital ships combined.
LOS ANGELES March 27 2020-- Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy T-AH 19 arrives in Los Angeles March 27. Since 1978 Mercy Ships has been bringing hope and healing to people without access to medical care. Two ships of the class were put into service.
