USNS Red Cloud (T-AKR-313)
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| Ordered: | 1 January 1996 |
| Builder: | National Steel and Shipbuilding Company |
| Laid down: | 29 June 1998 |
| Launched: | 7 August 1999 |
| In service: | 18 January 2000 |
| Fate: | in service |
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| Class and type: | Watson-class vehicle cargo ship |
| Displacement: | 29,000 tons |
| Length: | 950 ft |
| Beam: | 106 ft |
| Draft: | 34 ft |
| Propulsion: | Gas turbine |
USNS Red Cloud (T-AKR-313) is one of Military Sealift Command's nineteen Large, Medium-Speed Roll-on/Roll-off Ships and is part of the 33 ships in the Prepositioning Program. She is a Watson-class vehicle cargo ship.
She was named for Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud, Jr., a Medal of Honor Receipient.
Laid down on 29 June 1998 and launched on 7 August 1999, Red Cloud was put into service in the Pacific Ocean on 18 January 2000.
According to The Guardian the human rights group Reprieve identified the Red Cloud and sixteen other USN vessels as having held "ghost prisoners" in clandestine extrajudicial detention.[1]
References
- ↑ Duncan Campbell, Richard Norton-Taylor (2 June 2008). "Prison ships, torture claims, and missing detainees". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/02/terrorism.terrorism. Retrieved 2008-06-01. mirror
External links
- Photo gallery at navsource.org
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