USNS Red Cloud (T-AKR-313)

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 and 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) Ships and is one of the 24 ships in the Prepositioning Program. 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.

Commanding Officers History

[1] Wagner, Elaine C. (Rear Admiral )
[2] Russell, Gordon (Rear Admiral )
[3] Aucoin, Joseph P. (Vice Admiral)
[4] Shafleen.M.A (Captain)
[5] Carter, Walter E. "Ted", Jr. (Vice Admiral)
[6] Berkey, Richard D. (Captain)

References

  1. ↑ http://www.navy.mil/
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  3. ↑ http://www.navy.mil/
  4. ↑ http://www.navy.mil/
  5. ↑ http://www.navy.mil/
  6. ↑ http://www.navy.mil/

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