USNS Red Cloud
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Awarded | 1 January 1996 |
Builder | National Steel and Shipbuilding Company |
Laid down | 29 June 1998 |
Launched | 7 August 1999 |
In service | 18 January 2000 |
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Status | in service |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Watson-class vehicle cargo ship |
Displacement | 62,644 Long Tons |
Length | 950 Ft |
Beam | 106 Ft |
Draft | 34 Ft |
Propulsion | 2 Gas Turbines |
Speed | 24 Knots |
Range | 12,000 Nautical Miles |
Complement | 30 |
USNS Red Cloud (T-AKR 313) is one of Military Sealift Command's nineteen Large, Medium-Speed Roll-on/Roll-off (LMSR)[1] Ships and is one of the 49 ships in the prepositioning program.[2] She is a Watson-class vehicle cargo ship named for Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr., a Medal of Honor recipient, after whom Camp Red Cloud in Korea is also named.
Laid down on 29 June 1998 and launched on 7 August 1999, Red Cloud was put into service on 18 January 2000.[3]
In 2003 Red Cloud was deployed to transport U.S. Army vehicles to Kuwait to support Operation Iraqi Freedom.
On 12 August 2015, an Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed on the deck of the Red Cloud when demonstrating capabilities to the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. The Red Cloud was operating approximately eight miles east of Ukibaru Island. Of the seventeen service members on board the helicopter, seven suffered non-life-threatening injuries.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "MSC Ship Inventory - Large, Medium-Speed Roll-on/Roll-off". www.msc.navy.mil. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
- ^ "Strategic Sealift (PM3)". www.msc.navy.mil. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
- ^ "USNS Red Cloud (T-AKR 313)". navysite.de. Retrieved 2015-10-20.
- ^ "Army Black Hawk Was Conducting SOF Demonstration For Japanese When Crash Occurred". USNI News. 2015-08-14. Retrieved 2016-06-29.
This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
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