37°44′28″N 122°22′06″W / 37.7410565°N 122.3682768°W / 37.7410565; -122.3682768

MV Cape Henry on 2 October 1993
History
United States
Name	Cape Henry
Namesake	Cape Henry
Owner	United States Department of Transportation United States Maritime Administration
Operator	Marine Transport Lines
Builder	Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki, Japan
Launched	17 November 1978
Completed	1979
Acquired	30 September 1986
Commissioned	30 September 1986
Renamed	from Barber Priam
Identification	IMO number: 7724083 MMSI number: 303943000 Callsign: KMJH Pennant number: T-AKR-5067
Status	Laid in San Francisco, in ROS-5 status
General characteristics
Class and type	Cape H-class roll-on/roll-off
Displacement	51,007 long tons
Length	749 feet
Beam	105 feet inches
Draft	35 feet
Propulsion	Diesel, single propeller
Speed	17.4 knots
Range	Not Disclosed
Complement	27 civilian mariners
Armament	none
Armor	none
Aircraft carried	none

MV Cape Henry (T-AKR-5067) is a roll-on/roll-off cargo ship. She has two sister ships: MV Cape Hudson and MV Cape Horn.

Construction and career

The Cape Henry was originally built as a commercial ship in 1979 and sold to the Ocean Transport and Trading Co. with the name Barber Priam. It served as a merchant ship until it was purchased by the US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, on 30 September 1986. Operated under contract by Marine Transport Lines of Weehawken.

She was anchored in the Bay of Gibraltar on 18 May 1993.

It was later transferred to the Maritime Administrations Ready reserve fleet and assigned to San Francisco.

Further reading

• (https://web.archive.org/web/20120616101500/http://www.msc.navy.mil/inventory/ships.asp?ship=35) Military Sealift Command Ship Inventory
• (http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/54/545067.htm) NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive
• This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.

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