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| Ship status = Active in service as of 2009
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'''Motor Vessel ''TSgt John A. Chapman'' (T-AK-323)''' is a ] container ship. She is one of ]'s seventeen Container & Roll-on/Roll-off Ships and is part of the 36 ships in the Prepositioning Program. '''Motor Vessel ''TSgt John A. Chapman'' (T-AK-323)''' is a ] container ship. She is one of ]'s seventeen Container & Roll-on/Roll-off Ships and is part of the 36 ships in the Prepositioning Program.

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MV TSgt John A. Chapman (AK-323)
History
United States
Launched1978
StatusActive in service as of 2009
General characteristics
Displacement26,378 long tons (26,801 t)
Length670 ft (200 m)
Beam87 ft (27 m)
Draft34 ft 6 in (10.52 m)
Speed16 kn (30 km/h)
Complement19 civilian, 0 military

Motor Vessel TSgt John A. Chapman (T-AK-323) is a Buffalo Soldier-class container ship. She is one of Military Sealift Command's seventeen Container & Roll-on/Roll-off Ships and is part of the 36 ships in the Prepositioning Program.

Built in 1978 by Chanters Navigation de la Ciotat in France, she was originally named Merlin. She was renamed for John A. Chapman on 8 April 2005.

TSgt John A. Chapman carries Air Force munitions. She features climate-controlled cocoons on her weather decks which protect additional cargo from the marine environment. She is owned and operated by Sealift, Inc. and is under charter to MSC.

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