The UPFS Nightingale

The MSO had reached the point where it was determined that it could use a hospital ship for its mission. At a time when the expense of the naval budget had come under fire (the period between the two sathar wars is a very long interval) this ammounted to transfering the cost of a ship to the MSO and yet retaining its for recall to Space Fleet service. There was also a bit of a propaganda motive too in that it would appear that the politicians were doing something to prune back the naval budget and were doing something along the lines of a social service.<br /><br />A Portecteur Class UPFS Fast Supply Ship (FE #8) was decommissioned and became the first hospital ship of the MSO.<br /><br />Its load out of munition stores was removed, a morg, labs, and expanded hospital wing was added.<br /><br />The small craft handling bay was redone to service a HS2 shuttle (most of the small craft were lost) <br /><br />the water tanks were retained, as well as most of the work pods (6) Some of the space for spare parts was used for medical and emergency supplies.