MV American Tern
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| Built[1]: | 1990, VEB Schiffswerft Neptun, Rostock, Germany |
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| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | Template:Ship fate box active in service |
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| General characteristics[2] | |
| Displacement: | 8,650 tons |
| Length: | 521 feet |
| Beam: | 76 feet |
| Draft: | 33 feet |
| Propulsion: | |
| Speed: | 16 knots |
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| Complement: | 21 contract mariners |
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The M/V American Tern (T-AK-4729) is a container ship managed by APL Maritime, LTD. Formerly the Liberian flagged M/V Kariba, the vessel was renamed American Tern under the United States flag in 2002. Since then, the American Tern has been chartered by the U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command. She is contracted through 2010 to make resupply voyages to McMurdo Station in Antarctica (Operation Deep Freeze) and Thule Air Base in Greenland (Operation Paser Goose).[3] The vessel is appropriately named after the Tern, a species of bird that makes annual migrations from the Arctic to the Antarctic.
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