USNS Charlton (T-AKR-314)

Career (US)
Ordered:	26 November 1996
Builder:	National Steel and Shipbuilding Company
Laid down:	4 January 1999
Launched:	11 December 1999
In service:	23 May 2000
Status:	in active service, as of 2015
General characteristics
Class and type:	Watson-class vehicle cargo ship
Displacement:	69,000 tons
Length:	950 ft
Beam:	106 ft
Draft:	34 ft
Propulsion:	Gas turbine

USNS Charlton (T-AKR-314) 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 named for Sergeant Cornelius H. Charlton, a Medal of Honor recipient.

Laid down on 4 January 1999 and launched on 11 December 1999, Charlton was put into service in the Pacific Ocean on 23 May 2000.

References

• 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.