USNS Charlton (T-AKR-314)

History

United States
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 2016
General characteristics
Class & 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.

Watson-class vehicle cargo ship

Watson Sisler Dahl Red Cloud Charlton Watkins Pomeroy Soderman

List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy

Large, Medium-Speed Roll-on/Roll-off ships

Bob Hope class	Bob Hope Fisher Seay Mendonca Pililaau Brittin Benavidez

Watson class	Watson Sisler Dahl Red Cloud Charlton Watkins Pomeroy Soderman

Gordon class	Gordon Gilliland

Shughart class	Shughart Yano GySgt. Fred W. Stockham

List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy

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