MV Cape Victory (T-AKR-9701)
MV Cape Victory (T-AKR-9701)
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| Name: | MV Cape Victory (T-AKR-9701) |
| Builder: | Fincantieri, Genoa, Italy |
| Launched: | 1984 |
| Acquired: | 1993 |
| In service: | 2 April 1993 |
| Homeport: | Beaumont, TX |
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| Status: | In ready reserve since 1994. Four days needed to activate. |
| Notes: | MV Marzario Britainna |
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| Class and type: | Cape V-class Roll-on/Roll-off ship |
| Displacement: | 30,644 tons |
| Length: | 631 ft 0 in (192.33 m) |
| Beam: | 87 ft 0 in (26.52 m) |
| Draft: | 28 ft 4 in (8.64 m) |
| Propulsion: | one slow speed diesel engine, 9,184 hp, one propeller |
| Speed: | 14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h) |
| Capacity: | 26,690 sq. ft. vehicle space or 1,306 standard containers |
| Complement: | Full Operational Status: 25 civilian mariners |
| Armament: | 12 Man Force Protection Team |
| Aviation facilities: | In an emergency Helicopters can land on the vessels Spar Deck |
MV Cape Victory (T-AKR-9701) was built in 1984 as MV Marzario Britainna by Cant Nav. Italiani. After launching, it was delivered to CMB T. Italy for commercial operation. She was acquired. 2 April 1993, by the United States Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration and renamed MV Cape Victory on 2 April 1994 and assigned to the Maritime Administration's Ready Reserve Force, 19 August 1994. When activated Cape Victory is one of the Maritime Administration's 31 Roll-on/Roll-off Reserve Force Ships assigned to the US Navy's Military Sealift Command (MSC) Sealift Program Office. Cape Victory is nested at the National Defense Reserve Fleet in Beaumont, Texas, in ROS-5 status, with a 10-man maintenance crew on board.
Upon the conclusion of its reflagging, Cape Victory entered the Ready Reserve Force in Reduced Operating Status – 4 (ROS-4) on 2 September 1994. The vessel is required to be ready for tender to COMSC within 96 hours of an activation notice. The ten (10) person ROS crew performs continuous maintenance in order to maintain the vessel in class with the American Bureau of Shipping and fully certificated by the USCG.
Within seven days of entering the RRF, on 9 September 1994, the MV Cape Victory loaded cargo at Wilmington, NC and departed for Port-au-Prince, Haiti via Guantanamo, Cuba. MV Cape Victory supported Operation Uphold Democracy, a peace keeping mission, for 94 days before returning to Beaumont, TX. Following her return from Uphold Democracy she returned to her layberth.
MV Cape Victory was activated on 4 December 1998, for a test of her readiness mission. The vessel was fully operational when her sail orders were changed and she supported the humanitarian relief effort to Central America in response to the damage caused by Hurricane Mitch. Cape Victory transported construction equipment and relief supplies for 23 days, returning to her layberth.
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