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MV Africa Mercy
The ''MV Africa Mercy'' is a , Hospital Ship belonging to the humanitarian organization Mercy Ships.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mercyships.ca/who-we-are/africa-mercy/ )〕 Converted from a Rail Ferry in 2007, It is currently the world's largest non-governmental floating hospital.〔"''Africa Mercy'' sails from UK to Africa," article, Shipping Times, 4 May 2007, http://www.shippingtimes.co.uk/item539_africamercy.htm. Retrieved 23 September 2011〕 It is the newest ship to enter service with Mercy Ships, which has been outfitting and operating hospital ships that serve developing nations since 1978.
==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 ''Prins Joachim''.
The ship was fitted out at the Cammell Laird shipyard at Hebburn in Tyneside, England.〔Anna Pukas, "Miracle of the Mercy Ships," article, ''UK News,'' http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/99496. Retrieved 19 September 2011〕 The ferry's large train deck facilitated its conversion into a hospital ship.〔"Hope Floats," article, ''Ability,'' accessed 12 September 2011, pp. 26-29.〕 Over the next few years, the ''Dronning Ingrid'' was transformed into the largest non-governmental hospital ship in the world, at a final cost of over . Although Mercy Ships has now retired all its earlier ships, the ''Africa Mercy'' has greater capacity than all three of its previous ships combined.〔
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