MV TSgt John A. Chapman (T-AK 323)

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MV TSgt John A. Chapman (AK-323)
Career USN Jack
Built: 1978
Commissioned:
Decommissioned:
Fate: Active in service as of 2006.
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement: 26,378 long tons
Length: 670 ft
Beam: 87 ft
Draft: 34 ft, 6 in
Propulsion:
Speed: 16 knots
Range:
Depth:
Complement: 19 civilian, 0 military
Armament:

Motor Vessel TSgt John A. Chapman (T-AK-323) is a Buffalo Soldier-class container ship. She is one of Military Sealift Command's seventeen Container & Roll-on/Roll-off Ships and is part of the 36 ships in the Prepositioning Program.

Built in 1978 by Chanters Navigation de la Ciotat, she was originally named Merlin. She was renamed for John A. Chapman on 8 April 2005.

TSgt John A. Chapman carries Air Force munitions. She features climate-controlled cocoons on her weather decks which protect additional cargo from the marine environment. She is owned and operated by Sealift, Inc. and is under charter to MSC.

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