| Career (US) | |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | 25 February 2000 |
| Builder: | National Steel and Shipbuilding Company |
| Laid down: | 31 October 2000 |
| Launched: | 26 April 2002 |
| In service: | 24 September 2002 |
| Fate: | in service |
| General characteristics | |
| 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 Soderman (T-AKR-317) 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 Private First Class William A. Soderman, a Medal of Honor recipient.
Laid down on 31 October 2000 and launched on 26 April 2002, Soderman was put into service in the Pacific Ocean on 24 September 2002.
According to The Guardian the human rights group Reprieve identified the Soderman and sixteen other USN vessels as having held "ghost prisoners" in clandestine extrajudicial detention.[1]
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This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.