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| Built: | 1978 |
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| Fate: | Template:Active in service |
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| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 26,378 long tons |
| Length: | 670 feet |
| Beam: | 87 feet |
| Draft: | 34 feet, 6 inches |
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| Speed: | 16 knots |
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| Complement: | 19 civilian, 0 military |
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MV 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, 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 coccoons on her weather decks that allow which protects the additional cargo from the marine environment. She is owned and operated by Sealift, Inc. and is under charter to MSC.
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