USNS Furman (T-AK-280) was a Norwalk class Fleet Ballistic Missile Cargo Ship, which was launched as a World War II commercial Victory cargo ship, the SS Furman Victory under the Emergency Shipbuilding program.

With the war over and her post-war work completed, on 4 November 1948 she was laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet in Mobile, Alabama.

On 11 August 1950 she was removed from the Reserve Fleet and serviced to return her to active duty for the Korean War.

SS Furman Victory served as merchant marine ship, by the American President Lines, supplying goods for the Korean War.

[5][6][7][8][9][10] In April 1983, the USNS Furman was converted to a cable cargo ship at the Atlantic Drydock Corp. in Jacksonville, Florida.