9 x 11 inch picture of the USNS Mercy, T-AH 19, with a clock. The plate reads: 'To the City of San Diego from the crew of the USNS Mercy T-AH 19, 2 July 1997'. Mercy was built as an oil tanker in 1976, converted to a hospital ship and launched in 1985 and commissioned in 1986. Home-ported in San Diego, she is normally in reduced operating status where Her crew is part of the staff of Naval Medical Center San Diego when not at sea.