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Mercy-class hospital ship

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Mercy class hospital ship
USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) off the coast of Haiti, January 2010.
USNS Mercy (T-AH-19) anchored off of the coast of Philippines capitol of Manila, May 2006.

The Mercy class of hospital ships are converted San Clemente-class supertankers now used by the United States Navy as naval ambulances. Two of them are used by today's Navy:

They are both maintained by the Military Sealift Command. They do not carry any ordnance, and firing on either of them is a war crime.

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