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Mercy Ships
Mercy Ships is an international charity that operates the largest non-governmental hospital ships in the world, providing humanitarian aid like free health care, community development projects, community health education, mental health programs, agriculture projects, and palliative care for terminally ill patients. Mercy Ships has visited more than 55 developing nations and 18 developed nations around the world, with a focus on the countries of Africa for the past 30 years. The organization has its International Support Center (ISC) in Garden Valley, Texas. Mercy Ships also has a bureau in Cotonou, Benin, as well as 16 national resource offices in countries that include Spain, Britain, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, South Africa, Australia, France, Korea, Denmark, Belgium, New Zealand, Sweden and Norway. A major inspiration for Mercy Ships founder Don Stephens was the work of the international hospital ship . Stephens' research showed that 95 of the 100 largest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hospital Ships
A hospital ship is a ship designated for primary function as a floating medical treatment facility or hospital. Most are operated by the military forces (mostly navies) of various countries, as they are intended to be used in or near war zones. In the 19th century, redundant warships were used as moored hospitals for seamen. The Second Geneva Convention prohibits military attacks on hospital ships that meet specified requirements, though belligerent forces have right of inspection and may take patients, but not staff, as prisoners of war. History Early examples Hospital ships possibly existed in ancient times. The Athenian Navy had a ship named ''Therapia'', and the Roman Navy had a ship named ''Aesculapius'', their names indicating that they may have been hospital ships. The earliest British hospital ship may have been the vessel ''Goodwill'', which accompanied a Royal Navy squadron in the Mediterranean in 1608 and was used to house the sick sent aboard from other ships. How ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridgetunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the fifth-largest country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of , with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden has a nature dominated by forests and a large amount of lakes, including some of the largest in Europe. Many long rivers run from the Scandes range through the landscape, primarily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MV Good Samaritan
MV may refer to: Businesses and organizations In transportation * Motor vessel, a motorized ship; used as a prefix for ship names * MV Agusta, a motorcycle manufacturer based in Cascina Costa, Italy * Armenian International Airways (IATA code MV) * Metropolitan-Vickers, an electrical equipment and vehicle manufacturer * Midland Valley Railroad, United States (reporting mark MV) Other organizations * Mieterverband, a Swiss tenant organization * Millennium Volunteers, a former UK government initiative * Minnesota Vikings, an American football team * Miss Venezuela, a beauty pageant * Museum Victoria, an organization which operates three major state-owned museums in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Places * Martha's Vineyard, an island located south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts * Maldives (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code MV) * Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a German state at the Baltic Sea * Mountain View, a city in California, US People * M. Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer and statesman c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CN Marine
CN Marine was a Canadian ferry company headquartered in Moncton, New Brunswick. History CN Marine was created by parent Canadian National Railway (CN) in 1977 as a means to group the company's ferry operations in eastern Canada into a separate operating division. It had previously been part of the Canadian National Steamship Company. The majority of these ferries also required federal subsidies to supplement fares, thus CN was unwilling to have the operating losses appear in the railway's accounts. CN Marine also operated the Newfoundland Dockyard in St. John's, Newfoundland. CN Marine undertook several major service improvements on the constitutionally mandated services to Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island by commissioning the construction of the new vessels '' Abegweit'' and ''Caribou'' in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1986, the federal government approved a restructuring at CN which saw the company remove itself completely from the east coast ferry service, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MV Petite Forte
MV may refer to: Businesses and organizations In transportation * Motor vessel, a motorized ship; used as a prefix for ship names * MV Agusta, a motorcycle manufacturer based in Cascina Costa, Italy * Armenian International Airways (IATA code MV) * Metropolitan-Vickers, an electrical equipment and vehicle manufacturer * Midland Valley Railroad, United States (reporting mark MV) Other organizations * Mieterverband, a Swiss tenant organization * Millennium Volunteers, a former UK government initiative * Minnesota Vikings, an American football team * Miss Venezuela, a beauty pageant * Museum Victoria, an organization which operates three major state-owned museums in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Places * Martha's Vineyard, an island located south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts * Maldives (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code MV) * Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a German state at the Baltic Sea * Mountain View, a city in California, US People * M. Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer and statesman c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MV Caribbean Mercy
MV may refer to: Businesses and organizations In transportation * Motor vessel, a motorized ship; used as a prefix for ship names * MV Agusta, a motorcycle manufacturer based in Cascina Costa, Italy * Armenian International Airways (IATA code MV) * Metropolitan-Vickers, an electrical equipment and vehicle manufacturer * Midland Valley Railroad, United States (reporting mark MV) Other organizations * Mieterverband, a Swiss tenant organization * Millennium Volunteers, a former UK government initiative * Minnesota Vikings, an American football team * Miss Venezuela, a beauty pageant * Museum Victoria, an organization which operates three major state-owned museums in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Places * Martha's Vineyard, an island located south of Cape Cod in Massachusetts * Maldives (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code MV) * Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a German state at the Baltic Sea * Mountain View, a city in California, US People * M. Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer and statesman c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MS Polarlys (1952)
Several motor ships have borne the name ''Polarlys'': * was a 2,163-ton passenger/cargo ship launched on 15 March 1952 by Aalborg Vaerft in Aalborg, Denmark. Sold in 1994 to Mercy Ships whom renamed it as ''Caribbean Mercy''. Renamed ''Hope II'' in 2007 and finally scrapped in Colon in 2010. * is an 11,341-ton passenger/cargo ship launched in 1995 by Ulstein Verft in Ulsteinvik is a town in the municipality of Ulstein, Møre og Romsdal, Norway. The town is the commercial and administrative centre of Ulstein and as such, Ulsteinvik contains 74% of the municipality's population. The town has a population (2018) of 5,788 ..., Norway. See also * References {{DEFAULTSORT:Polarlys, Ms Ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africa Mercy (55914308)
The MV ''Africa Mercy'' is a , hospital ship belonging to the humanitarian organization Mercy Ships. Converted from the rail ferry MS ''Dronning Ingrid'' in 2007, she is currently the world's second largest non-governmental floating hospital, following the organization's newest and largest ship, the . Design and capabilities The ''Africa Mercy'' project started in March 1999. A former rail ferry named ''Dronning Ingrid'' (''Queen Ingrid'') was bought in Denmark for , through a donation from U.K. businesswoman Ann Gloag's Balcraig Foundation."Mercy Ships Launching the ''Africa Mercy''," article, 21 March 2006, http://www.ywam.org/News-Stories/sources/news/mercy_ships_launching_the_africa_mercy. Retrieved 14 September 2011 ''Dronning Ingrid'' is the first of three identical ships built for DSB (Danish State Railways). The other ships are the and the . The ship was fitted out at the Cammell Laird shipyard at Hebburn in Tyneside, England. The ferry's large train deck facilitated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caribbean Mercy In Guatemala
The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts. The region is southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and the North American mainland, east of Central America, and north of South America. Situated largely on the Caribbean Plate, the region has more than 700 islands, islets, reefs and cays (see the list of Caribbean islands). Island arcs delineate the eastern and northern edges of the Caribbean Sea: The Greater Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago on the north and the Lesser Antilles and the on the south and east (which includes the Leeward Antilles). They form the West Indies with the nearby Lucayan Archipelago (the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands), which are considered to be part of the Caribbean despite not bordering the Caribbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monrovia
Monrovia () is the capital city of the West African country of Liberia. Founded in 1822, it is located on Cape Mesurado on the Atlantic coast and as of the 2008 census had 1,010,970 residents, home to 29% of Liberia’s total population. As the nation's primate city, Monrovia is the country's economic, financial and cultural center; its economy is primarily centered on its harbor and its role as the seat of Liberian government. Etymology Monrovia is named in honor of U.S. President James Monroe, a prominent supporter of the colonization of Liberia and the American Colonization Society. Along with Washington, D.C., it is one of two world capitals to be named after a U.S. President. History Before 1816, the area around Cape Mesurado and the mouth of the Mesurado River was called Ducor. It had long been established as a crossroads and place of trade, and was inhabited by fishing, trading and farming communities of various ethnicities, including the Dey, Kru, Bassa, Gola, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Express
The ''Daily Express'' is a national daily United Kingdom middle-market newspaper printed in tabloid format. Published in London, it is the flagship of Express Newspapers, owned by publisher Reach plc. It was first published as a broadsheet in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson. Its sister paper, the ''Sunday Express'', was launched in 1918. In June 2022, it had an average daily circulation of 201,608. The paper rose to become the largest circulation newspaper in the world under Lord Beaverbrook, going from 2 million in the 1930s to 4 million in the 1940s. It was acquired by Richard Desmond's company Northern & Shell in 2000. Hugh Whittow was the editor from February 2011 until he retired in March 2018. In February 2018 Trinity Mirror acquired the ''Daily Express'', and other publishing assets of Northern & Shell, in a deal worth £126.7 million. To coincide with the purchase the Trinity Mirror group changed the name of the company to ''Reach''. Hugh Whittow resigned as editor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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