Dunkirk Class
Medical Heavy Cruiser
To compensate
for the disaster of the Recovery Automated Rescue and Evacuation Project
of the 2170’s. Federation Auxiliary Services and Starfleet Medical
looked to modify existed vessel classes to meet this critical need for
the Federation. The Dunkirk Class, developed in the late 2290’s,
helped to meet this critical need.
Based on the earlier M’Benga class medical cruiser, the Dunkirk
engineers simply expanded the carrying capacity of the starship by connecting
two additional engineering sections to the original engineering hold.
This effectively tripled the carrying capacity of the starship. Due
to the M’Benga class’s unique warp nacelle alignment, this
ship was able to take on the extra mass and size without extensive calibration
of the warp fields. Despite this, the M’Benga was found to have
a lower than expected maximum warp tolerance. Although this was not
critical in terms of moving population with advanced warning, the Dunkirk
was unsuitable to the task of making last-minute evacuations of large
populations. The class was later refitted to accept a larger warp sling
that would allow it to be used in such a fashion. However, by that point,
construction efforts had been shifted to other vessel designs, and the
Dunkirk class production was abandoned. The final vessel of the line,
the Refuge, was never placed into active service as was sold to a commercial
shipping firm.
Dunkirk Class Production Schedule
| USS Rescue |
USS Salvation |
| USS Mother Teresa |
USS Refuge |
| USS Dunkirk |
|
USS Rescue
Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed
the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit
as though he had rescued the entire world.
- The Talmud, Mishna. Sanhedrin
USS Mother Teresa
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Sir Winston Churchill
USS Dunkirk
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
USS Salvation
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
- William Shakespeare
USS Refuge
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breath
free...
-Emma Lazarus
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