USNS Dahl

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.

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

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]