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MV Cape Decision (AKR-5054)

International Radio Call Sign:
Whiskey - Mike - Golf - Delta WMGD

Cape D Class Roll-on/Roll-off Vehicle Cargo Ship:

Laid down in 1972, as MV Tombarra at Eriksbergs MV AB, Sweden for Wilh. Wilhelmsen Lines, Finland

Launched, date unknown

Delivered for mercantile service, 30 August 1973

Acquired by Barber Steamship Co., date unknown

Purchased from Barber Steamship Co. by the US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, 10 October 1985

Renamed MV Cape Decision

Assigned to MARAD Ready Reserve Force, (RRF) as MV Cape Decision (AKR-5054)

MV Cape Decision (AKR-5054) 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 Decision 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

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
Mercantile Service
	88k	MV Tombarra moored pierside, Hamburg, Germany, September 1975.	Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
	266k	MV Tombarra underway in 1979 at Napier, New Zealand. Photo from the Chris Howell collection (negative received from Keith Wood).	Chris Howell, Southland Ship Stores Limited, Port of Bluff, N.Z.
MV Cape Decision (AKR-5054) - MARAD RRF
	57k	*MV Cape Decision* (AKR-5054)** at anchor, date and location unknown.	MSC web site
	36k	*MV Cape Decision* (AKR-5054)** moored pierside, date and location unknown. MARAD photo	Maritime Administration
	39k	*MV Cape Decision* (AKR-5054)** moored pierside, date and location unknown. MARAD photo	Maritime Administration
	1002k	*MV Cape Decision* (AKR-5054)** at anchor with a small tanker alongside, date and location unknown. Note the security patrol boat in the foreground. MARAD photo	Robert Hurst

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