SS Cape Isabel (T-AKR-5062)

SS Cape Isabel (T-AKR-5062)
Cape Isabel underway
Career (US)
Name:	SS Nevada
Owner:	Sea Lift Command
Builder:	Bath Iron Works, Bath, ME
Laid down:	July 28, 1975
Launched:	May 15, 1976
Acquired:	June 9, 1986
Renamed:	SS Cape Isabel
Status:	Laid up as part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet in a layberth at Long Beach, CA. in ROS-5 status
General characteristics
Class & type:	Roll-on/Roll-off ship
Displacement:	15,000 tons empty, 33,900 tons full
Length:	655 feet
Beam:	102 feet
Draft:	32 feet
Propulsion:	Two steam turbines, two propellers
Speed:	18.7 knots
Complement:	Full operational status 31, reserve status 9
Armament:	None
Armor:	None

The SS Cape Isabel (AKR-5062) was originally launched in 1976 as the SS Nevada, a Type C7 commercial ship. The States SS company took the first contract in 1976 and it operated until it was transferred to Lykes Brothers steamship company and renamed the SS Charles Lykes. Later the ship was reacquired from its commercial roles and brought back under military control via the Maritime Administration and renamed the Cape Isabel. Since then it has been kept in ready reserve status and used occasionally for heavy lifting operations to European theaters to have equipment air-lifted to active engagements. It has heavily participated in Operation Enduring Freedom ferrying goods across the Atlantic to staging points in Europe.

External links

• http://www.msc.navy.mil/inventory/ships.asp?ship=40 Ship's official page on Military Sea Lift command
• http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/54/545062.htm Ship photo index NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive
• http://wikimapia.org/5155486/SS-Cape-Isabel-AKR-5062-SS-Cape-Inscription-AKR-5076 Wikimapia site
• 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.