Help at last: Navy hospital ship the USNS Comfort docks in New York harbor

Crowds gathered to watch the USNS Comfort, a Navy hospital ship with 1,000 beds for patients, arriving in New York City to alleviate the strain on the city’s hospitals as it continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic – despite being warned to stay at home.  The ship arrived at New York Harbor on Monday morning. It will … Read more

Help at last: Navy hospital ship the USNS Comfort docks in New York harbor

The USNS Comfort, a Navy hospital ship with 1,000 beds for patients, was met by crowds of people as it arrived in New York City to alleviate the strain on the city’s hospitals as it continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic. The ship arrived at New York Harbor on Monday morning. It will welcome patients … Read more

100 scientists stranded on Arctic ship during COVID-19 pandemic after countries shut down borders

100 scientists are stranded on a research ship in the Arctic after the coronavirus pandemic causes countries shut their borders Researchers that were part of the MOSACiC expedition in the Arctic won’t be replaced by a new crew in mid-April as originally scheduled A replacement team had been set to fly out of Norway with … Read more

US Navy’s hospital ship ‘Mercy’ as it prepares 1000 beds for non-coronavirus patients

Military and medical staff on board the US Navy’s lead hospital ship, ‘Mercy’, are making preparations to take on as many as 1,000 non-coronavirus patients after it docks in the Port of Los Angeles. The former super oil tanker left its home port in San Diego on Monday to help free up beds on the … Read more

US Navy’s hospital ship ‘Mercy’ as it prepares 1000 beds for non-coronavirus patients

Military and medical staff on board the US Navy’s lead hospital ship, ‘Mercy’, are making preparations to take on as many as 1,000 non-coronavirus patients after it docks in the Port of Los Angeles. The former super oil tanker left its home port in San Diego on Monday to help free up beds on the … Read more

British pensioners trapped on cruise ship plead for Government to send in Royal Navy to rescue them 

Desperate British pensioners trapped aboard a cruise ship in northern Italy have pleaded for the Government to send in the Royal Navy to rescue them. Speaking exclusively to MailOnline via video call, three of the 214 British citizens on the Costa Pacifica – which moored last night at Genoa, near the epicentre of the outbreak … Read more

Ship graveyard with hundreds of sunken vessels is MOVING

‘Ghost fleet’ ship graveyard with hundreds of sunken vessels is MOVING: Storms, floods and erosion are causing wrecks to drift for miles The wooden skeletons of 185 wooden ships were sunk or left to decompose The wrecks are in an area of the Potomac River, called Mallows Bay, in Maryland Environmentalists have come to value … Read more