USNS Lewis and Clark (T-AKE-1)

40,298 ts

210 m

32.2 m

9.1 m

13-39 military, 124 civilian

Diesel drive, a propeller

20 knots

The USNS Lewis and Clark (T- AKE -1 ) is a general cargo ship of the Military Sealift Command. It is the type of the ship named after her Lewis and Clark - class. It was named after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their expedition.

History

T- AKE - 1 was added in 2001 in order and placed in 2004 at National Steel and Shipbuilding Company in Kiel. The ship was launched in 2005 by the stack and entered service in 2006.

2007 and 2008 laid the freighter in the Persian Gulf. In early 2009 he drove off the coast of Somalia. For this trip, a freight room was decked out as a prison. In February, the cruiser USS Vella Gulf (CG -72) handed over 16 Somali pirates for the first time at the Lewis and Clark, who brought this to Kenya. In April, the Lewis and Clark himself target of a pirate attack, but was able to escape the attackers.

In 2011, the cargo ship in the Mediterranean Sea on the military use of the international coalition against Libya in part.