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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 San Francisco, CA. and can be activated in 10 days (RRF-10)
    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
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    Commercial Service
    Cape Orlando 59k MV Finneagle in port, date and location unknown. .
    Cape Orlando 89k MV American Eagle drydocked at Bremen, Germany, in May 1985. Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    Cape Orlando 41k MV American Eagle underway date and location unknown. .
    Cape Orlando 85k MV American Eagle underway date and location unknown. .
    MV Cape Orlando (AKR-2044) - MARAD RRF
    Cape Orlando 52k MV Cape Orlando (AKR-2044) underway, date and location unknown. MSC web site
    Cape Orlando 65k MV Cape Orlando (AKR-2044) moored pierside, date and location unknown.
    MARAD photo    		 US Maritime Administration
    Cape Orlando 76k MV Cape Orlando (AKR-2044) underway, date and location unknown.
    MARAD photo    		 US Maritime Administration
    Cape Orlando 77k MV Cape Orlando (AKR-2044) underway, date and location unknown.
    MARAD photo    		 US Maritime Administration
    Cape Orlando 56k MV Cape Orlando (AKR-2044) moored pierside in her layberth in the San Francisco Bay area, date unknown.
    US Maritime Administration photo.    		 .
    Cape Orlando 43k MV Cape Orlando (AKR-2044) moored pierside, date and location unknown.
    US Maritime Administration photo.    		 .
    There is no DANFS history for MV Cape Orlando (AKR-2044) at NavSource
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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