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MV Cape Diamond (AKR-5055)

Cape D Class Roll-on/Roll-off Vehicle Cargo Ship:
  • Laid down in 1972, as MV Tricolor, Gironde, France, for Wilhelmsen Line (Norwegian Flag)
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Delivered for commercial service, 7 September 1972
  • Acquired by Barber Steamship Co., date unknown
  • Purchased from Barber Steamship Co. by the US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, 16 October 1985
  • Renamed MV Cape Diamond
  • Assigned to MARAD Ready Reserve Force, (RRF), b>MV Cape Diamond (AKR-5055)
  • MV Cape Diamond (AKR-5055) 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 Diamond 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 Diamond 77k MV Tricolor at Bremerhaven, Germany in September 1980. Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    MV Cape Diamond (AKR-5055) - MARAD RRF
    Cape Diamond 77k MV Cape Diamond (AKR-5055) moored pierside, date and location unknown. Military Sealift Command
    Cape Diamond 79k MV Cape Diamond (AKR-5055) moored pierside while vehicles are being stowed on her main deck, date and location unknown. Maritime Administration
    Cape Diamond 109k MV Cape Diamond (AKR-5055) moored pierside while vehicles are loaded aboard, date and location unknown. Maritime Administration
    Cape Diamond 75k MV Cape Diamond (AKR-5055) moored pierside, date and location unknown. Maritime Administration
    Cape Diamond 70k MV Cape Diamond (AKR-5055) moored pierside while vehicles are loaded aboard, date and location unknown. Maritime Administration
    Cape Diamond 88k MV Cape Diamond (AKR-5055) moored pierside while vehicles are loaded aboard, date and location unknown. Maritime Administration
    Cape Diamond 74k MV Cape Diamond (AKR-5055) underway, date and location unknown. Maritime Administration
    Cape Diamond 64k MV Cape Diamond (AKR-5055) underway, date and location unknown. Maritime Administration web site
    Cape Diamond 84k MV Cape Diamond (AKR-5055) at New York City, N.Y., October 1986. Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
    Cape Diamond 94k Port quarter view of MV Cape Diamond (AKR-5055) moored pierside at Moon Engineering Co. Shipyard, Norfolk, VA., 24 August 1989.
    DVIC photos # DN-ST-90-09598 by Don Montgomery, from the collections of the US Defense Visual Information Center.    		 Bill Gonyo
    There is no DANFS history for MV Cape Diamond (AKR-5055) at NavSource
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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