This year’s ceremony will acknowledge several significant anniversaries, including 110 years since the Maheno served off the coast of Gallipoli, and 80 years since the end of the Second World War, says KartiniHavell....
THE Navy’s only hospital ship is so decrepit it has been banned from sailing amid fears it could sink ... PAThe Navy’s only hospital ship is so decrepit it has been banned from sailing amid fears it could sink[/caption] .
A fourteenth hospital ship was sunk by a German mine in the English Channel off Juno beach, during the Normandy invasion.” That meant that wounded “servicemembers could not be assured of safety aboard hospital ships.”.
For the past year, marine pilot Ian Lawrence and his family of four have been volunteering on a hospital ship off the coast of Sierra Leone... The GlobalMercy is thought to be the world's largest purpose-built non-governmental hospital ship.