MV Cape Henry (T-AKR-5067)

MV Cape Henry (T-AKR-5067)
File:MV Cape Henry.jpg MV Cape Henry on 2 October 1993
Career (United States)
Name:	MV Cape Henry
Namesake:	Cape Henry
Owner:	Marine Transport Lines
Builder:	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki, Japan
Launched:	17 November 1978
Completed:	1979
Acquired:	30 September 1986
Commissioned:	30 September 1986
Renamed:	from Barber Priam
Identification:	IMO number: 7724083 Maritime Mobile Service Identity number: 303943000 Callsign: KMJH Pennant number: T-AKR-5067
Status:	laid in San Francisco, in ROS-5 status
General characteristics
Class & type:	Cape H-class roll-on/roll-off
Displacement:	51,007 long tons
Length:	749 feet
Beam:	105 feet inches
Draft:	35 feet
Propulsion:	Diesel, single propeller
Speed:	17.4 knots
Range:	Not Disclosed
Complement:	27 civilian mariners
Armament:	none
Armor:	none
Aircraft carried:	none

MV Cape Henry (T-AKR-5067) was originally built as a commercial ship in 1979 and sold to the Ocean Transport and Trading Co. with the name Barber Priam. She has 2 sister ships named MV Cape Hudson and MV Cape Horn.

Construction and career

It served as a merchant ship until it was purchased by the US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration on 30 September 1986. Operated under contract by Marine Transport Lines of Weehawken. She was anchored in the Bay of Gibraltar on 18 May 1993. From there it was later transferred to the Maritime Administrations Ready reserve fleet and assigned to San Francisco.

Further reading

• (https://web.archive.org/web/20120616101500/http://www.msc.navy.mil/inventory/ships.asp?ship=35) Military Sealift Command Ship Inventory
• (http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/54/545067.htm) NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive
• This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.