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T-AKR-5054 Cape Decision

Cape D Class Roll-on/Roll-off Vehicle Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down in 1972, as MV Tombarra at Eriksbergs MV AB, Sweden for Wilh. Wilhelmsen Lines, Finland
  • Launched (date unknown)
  • Delivered for commercial service, 30 August 1973
  • Purchased by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), 10 October 1985 and renamed Cape Decision
  • Assigned to MARAD Ready Reserve Force, (RRF)
  • Cape Decision (T-AKR-5054) 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.
  • Cape Decision (T-AKR-5054) is laid up as part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet in a layberth at Charleston, S.C. in ROS-5 status
    Specifications:
    Displacement 13,220 t.(lt) 34,617 t.(lt)
    Length 681'
    Beam 97'
    Draft 37' (max)
    Speed 16.2 kts.
    Complement
    Full Operational Status 27
    Reduced Operational Status 9
    Propulsion diesel, single shaft
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    Commercial Service
    Cape Decision 88k MV Tombarra moored pierside, Hamburg, Germany, September 1975. Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    MARAD Ready Reserve - Cape Decision (T-AKR-5054)
    Cape Decision 57k Cape Decision (T-AKR-5054) at anchor, date and place unknown. MSC web site
    Cape Decision 36k Cape Decision (T-AKR-5054) moored pierside, date and place unknown.
    MARAD photo    		 Maritime Administration
    Cape Decision 39k Cape Decision (T-AKR-5054) moored pierside, date and place unknown.
    MARAD photo    		 Maritime Administration
    There is no DANFS history for Cape Decision (T-AKR-5054) at NavSource
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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