Awarded 20 October 1994 In service 13 July 1999 Beam 106 ft Launched 2 October 1998 Weight 29,470 tons Draft 10 m | Laid down 12 November 1997 Status in active service Construction started 12 November 1997 Length 290 m Displacement 26.31 million kg | |
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Class and type Watson-class vehicle cargo ship Builder National Steel and Shipbuilding Company | ||
USNS Dahl (T-AKR-312) 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 Specialist Larry G. Dahl, a Medal of Honor recipient.
Laid down on 12 November 1997 and launched on 2 October 1998, Dahl was put into service in the Pacific Ocean on 13 July 1999.
According to The Guardian the human rights group Reprieve identified the Dahl and sixteen other USN vessels as having held "ghost prisoners" in clandestine extrajudicial detention.
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