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To: Mogger

The US navy hospital ship, the Comfort, is a converted oil tanker.


Its sister ship in the Pacific, the USNS Mercy, was also built on a supertanker hull (dunno if it was original spec or a refit). By volume they are larger then a Nimitz class aircraft carrier (IIRC).


9 posted on 06/30/2019 7:00:28 PM PDT by Gideon7
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13 posted on 06/30/2019 7:07:47 PM PDT by Paladin2
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