Career (US)
Awarded:
1 January 1996
Builder:
National Steel and Shipbuilding Company
Laid down:
29 June 1998
Launched:
7 August 1999
In service:
18 January 2000
Status:
in service
General characteristics
Class & 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]
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 .
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