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SS Cape Archway (AK-5011)

Cape A Class Breakbulk Cargo Ship:

Laid down, 12 August 1961, as SS African Neptune a Maritime Administration type (C4-S-58a) hull under Maritime Administration contract (MA 106) at Ingalls Shipbuilding Co., Pascagoula, MS.

Launched, 15 September 1962

Sold by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), 20 February 1963, to Farrell Lines

Trade-in and Build Program, title returned to MARAD, 17 December 1979

Bare-bottom charter by Farrell Lines, 17 December 1979

Returned to MARAD, 2 April 1980, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River Group, Lee Hall, VA.

Named changed to SS Neptune, 4 August 1980

Renamed SS Cape Archway, designated (AK-5011), assigned by MARAD to the Ready Reserve Fleet, 30 December 1980

When activated SS Cape Archway (T-AK-5011) was assigned to the Military Sealift Command (MSC) as one of the Military Sealift Command's Modular Cargo Delivery System Ready Reserve Force (RRF) Ships

Cape Archway could be activated 10 days

Downgraded from RRF and laid up in the Maritime Administrations (MARAD) National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Fort Eustis, VA., 19 December 2002

Final Disposition, departed James River Reserve Fleet, 29 October 2019, under tow to Brownsville, TX. for recycling, arrived 11 November 2019.

Specifications:
Displacement 7,380 t.(lt), 21,110 t.(fl)
Length 575'
Beam 75'
Draft 30' (max.)
Speed 18.3 kts.
Full Operating Status Complement (unknown) Civilian Mariners, Reduced Operating Status 5 maintainers
Propulsion steam turbine, two boilers, single propeller, 16,500shp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
	88k	*SS Cape Archway* (AK-5011)** underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo.	Haze Gray and Underway
	67k	*SS Cape Archway* (AK-5011)** underway, date and location unknown.	US Maritime Administration
	75k	*SS Cape Archway* (AK-5011)** underway with a tug alongside, date and location unknown.	US Maritime Administration
	54k	*SS Cape Archway* (AK-5011)** moored pierside, date and location unknown.	US Maritime Administration
	719k	Starboard bow view of *SS Cape Archway* (AK-5011)** tied up at the Moon Engineering Company pier on the Elizabeth River, Norfolk, VA., 12 September 1987. DVIC photo # DN-ST-88-07983, by Don S. Montgomery, USN Ret., from in the collections of the Defense Visual Information Center	Bill Gonyo
MARAD James River Group Reserve Fleet
	24k	SS Cape Archway laid up in the Maritime Administration's James River Reserve Fleet, off Fort Eustis, VA., date unknown.	US Maritime Administration
	100k	From left to right; SS Cape Juby, SS Cape Alexander, SS Cape Ann and SS Cape Archway laid up in the Maritime Administration's James River Reserve Fleet, 8 April 2009.	Photo by Mike Hibbard
	94k	From left to right; SS Cape Archway, SS Cape Avinoff and SS Cape Alva laid up in the Maritime Administration's James River Reserve Fleet, 8 April 2009.	Photo by Mike Hibbard

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