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MV Cape Orlando (AKR-2044)

Roll-on/Roll-off Vehicle Cargo Ship:

Laid down, 20 February 1981, as MV Finneagle at Kockums Varv Shipyard A,B., Malmo, Sweden, for Finnlines

Launched, date unknown

Completed and delivered to O.T. Rederierna, 18 February 1981

Sold to Zenit Dry Cargo Corp., renamed, MV Zenit Eagle, 28 June 1983

Resold to AutoMar II Corp., Wilmington, DE., 17 June 1983, renamed MV American Eagle, Connecticut National Bank, owner trustee

Time chartered from the Connecticut National Bank, 22 August 1983, by the US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration

Renamed MV Cape Orlando, 12 July 1993

Assigned to MARAD National Defense Reserve Fleet, Ready Reserve Force, (RRF), 12 September 1994, as MV Cape Orlando (AKR-2044)

MV Cape Orlando (AKR-2044) is one of the Military Sealift Command's (MSC) 31 Roll-on/Roll-off ships and one of the 63 ships of the Sealift Program Office.

MV Cape Orlando is laid up in a layberth at the former NAS Alameda, CA., and can be activated in 5 days (ROS-5)

Specifications:
Displacement13,166 t.(lt) 32,799 t.(fl)
Length 635'
Beam 92'
Draft 30' (max)
Speed 19.7 kts.

Complement

Full Operational Status 25

Reduced Operational Status 9

Propulsion Diesel 2 propellers

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
Merchant Service Finnlines Ltd. O.Y.
	59k	MV Finneagle in port, date and location unknown.
	89k	MV American Eagle drydocked at Bremen, Germany, in May 1985.	Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
	41k	MV American Eagle under way date and location unknown.
	85k	MV American Eagle under way date and location unknown.
	268k	MV American Eagle in a New Zealand port in 1984, location unknown.	Chris Howell, Southland Ship Stores Limited, Port of Bluff, N.Z.
MV Cape Orlando (AKR-2044) - MARAD RRF
	52k	MV Cape Orlando under way, date and location unknown.	MSC web site
	65k	*MV Cape Orlando* (AKR-2044)** moored pierside, date and location unknown. MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	76k	*MV Cape Orlando* (AKR-2044)** under way, date and location unknown. MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	77k	*MV Cape Orlando* (AKR-2044)** under way, date and location unknown. MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	56k	*MV Cape Orlando* (AKR-2044)** moored pierside in her layberth in the San Francisco Bay area, date unknown. US Maritime Administration photo.
	43k	*MV Cape Orlando* (AKR-2044)** moored pierside, date and location unknown. US Maritime Administration photo.
	2350k	Obstructed view of *MV Cape Orlando* (AKR-2044) inboard of GTS Admiral W. M. Callaghan (AKR-1001) and across the pier from an unknown Ready Reserve Force ship in their lay berths across from the Ex-USS Hornet CVS-12)** at Alameda Point, (ex-NAS Alameda) CA., 27 December 2008.	Photo by Chris Rasmussen
	178k	*MV Cape Orlando* (AKR-2044)** in San Francisco Bay as she departs former NAS Alameda, circa January 2011.	Mike McCullough
	188k	*MV Cape Orlando* (AKR-2044) and GTS Admiral W. M. Callaghan (AKR-1001)** underway in San Francisco Bay as they depart the former NAS Alameda, circa January 2011.	Mike McCullough
	357k	*MV Cape Orlando* (AKR-2044)** in San Francisco Bay returning to he layberth at the former NAS Alameda, date unknown. MSC photo.	Robert Hurst
	38k	*MV Cape Orlando* (AKR-2044)** conducting anchor tests, 12 August 2012, south of Pt. Blunt, Angel Island, San Francisco Bay.	Photo by CAPT. Jack C. Goldthorpe, USCG Ret.
	306k	*MV Cape Orlando* (AKR-2044)** in drydock #2 at ex-Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA., 29 September 2015	Photo by Darryl Baker
0954504419	94k	*MV Cape Orlando* (AKR-2044)** at the Ready Reserve Fleet facility (former NAS Alameda), 13 December 2018. Courtesy of Pi.1415926535 Wikimedia / Commons, License: CC BY-SA 3.0	Robert Hurst
	230k	*MV Cape Orlando* (AKR-2044)** anchored in Port Angeles, Washington Harbor, 28 February 2019. The ship is being refueled after leaving Oakland, California.	Mike Green