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The Mercy class of hospital ships are converted San Clemente-class supertankers now used by the United States Navy as naval ambulances. Originally built in the late 1970s by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, they were acquired by the Navy and converted into hospital ships, coming into service in 1986 and 1987. The ships are operated by Military Sealift Command and are designed to provide emergency, on-site care for US combatant forces, and also for use in support of disaster relief and humanitarian operations. Each ship contain 12 fully-equipped operating theaters, a 1,000 bed hospital facility, radiological services, medical laboratory, pharmacy, optometry lab, cat scan and two oxygen producing plants.
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