As usually in such cases, the truth must be somewhere in the middle;-)

According to the latest "Air Forces Monthly" there were 12 Seahawks
(SH-60F/HH-60H of HS-2 and SH-60B of HSL-47) aboard Lincoln when the
relief effort begun. Later on it was reinforced to the number of 15,
17 or - as AFM says - 19, most (all?) of the additional helos being
MH-60S Knighthawks of HC-11.

Best regards,

Jacek Zemlo


P.S. Sorry, for replying "beside" the thread, but something must be
wrong with my IP or browsers - I cannot retrieve any previous posts
and link my posts to them.