MV Buffalo Soldier
{{Short description|French/American roll-on/roll-off ship}}
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image= | Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career | Ship country=France | Ship flag={{shipboxflag|France}} | Ship name=Monet | Ship owner=French Government Line | Ship namesake= | Ship ordered= | Ship builder=Chantier naval de La Ciotat {{in lang|fr}} | Ship laid down= | Ship launched=9 July 1977 | Ship completed=1978 | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship honours= | Ship fate= | Ship status= | Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header=title | Ship country=United States | Ship flag={{shipboxflag|USA}} | Ship name=MV Buffalo Soldier | Ship owner=RR and VO Partnership | Ship namesake=Buffalo Soldiers | Ship acquired= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service=2001; returned to owners at completion of MSC charter | Ship reinstated= | Ship identification=*{{IMO Number|7504627}}
| Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Ship class= Buffalo Soldier-class T-AK container & roll-on/roll-off ship | Ship displacement={{cvt|26378|LT|t}} | Ship length={{cvt|670|ft}} | Ship beam={{cvt|87|ft}} | Ship draft={{cvt|34|ft|6|in}} | Ship propulsion= | Ship speed={{convert|16|kn}} | Ship range= | Ship complement=19 civilian, 0 military | Ship notes= }} |
MV Buffalo Soldier (T-AK-9301) is a roll-on/roll-off ship, formerly of the French Government Line (now merged into CMA CGM). She was sold and reflagged U.S., renamed to honor Buffalo Soldiers, and chartered by the United States Navy Military Sealift Command as a Maritime Prepositioning ship serving at Diego Garcia laden with U.S. Air Force munitions. She is self-sustaining, that is, she can unload herself, an asset in harbors with little or no infrastructure. Her 120-long-ton-capacity roll-on/roll-off ramp accommodates tracked and wheeled vehicles of every description. While she is not currently in service with MSC, ships with her general characteristics are designated Buffalo Soldier class, fleet designation AK 2222.
{{Cite web
|url=http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/tak-9301.htm
|title=AK 9301 Buffalo Soldier
|access-date= 17 January 2010
|publisher= GlobalSecurity.org
|quote= The Naval Vessel Register considered these two ships to be units of the AK 2222 Ship Class, though their characteristics are dis-similar [and indeed there does not appear to be a ship designated AK 2222].
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See also
- {{MV|TSgt John A. Chapman|T-AK 323}}
References
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External links
- {{navsource|09/13/139301|MV Buffalo Soldier}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120229042433/http://www.msc.navy.mil/mpstwo/ Maritime Prepositioning Squadron Two]
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Category:Cargo ships of the United States Navy
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