USNS Dahl

USNS Dahl in 2015
History
United States
Awarded	20 October 1994
Builder	National Steel and Shipbuilding Company
Laid down	12 November 1997
Launched	2 October 1998
In service	13 July 1999
Identification	IMO number:  9117040 MMSI number: 368700000 Callsign: NZJB
Status	in active service
General characteristics
Class & type	Watson-class vehicle cargo ship
Displacement	29,000 tons
Length	950 ft
Beam	106 ft
Draft	34 ft
Propulsion	Gas turbine

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. ^[1]

References

Media related to IMO 9117040 at Wikimedia Commons

1. Duncan Campbell, Richard Norton-Taylor (2 June 2008). "Prison ships, torture claims, and missing detainees". The Guardian . Retrieved 2008-06-01. mirror

•  This article incorporates public domain material from Dahl (T-AKR-312) at the Naval Vessel Register .