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SS Cape Inscription (AKR-5076)

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

Laid down, 1 July 1974, as SS Maine a Maritime Administration type (C7-S-95a) hull, under Maritime Administration contract (MA hull 279) at Bath Iron Works, Bath, ME.

Launched, 24 May 1975

Delivered for merchant service, 27 April 1976 to States SS Co.

Sold by States SS Co. to Whitney National Bank of New Orleans, 29 January 1979

Leased by Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., renamed SS Tyson Lykes, 23 February 1979

Sold by Whitney National Bank to Lykes Bros Steamship Co., 20 October 1982

Acquired by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), 8 September 1987, renamed SS Cape Inscription

Assigned to MARAD Ready Reserve Force, (RRF)

SS Cape Inscription (AKR-5076) 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.

SS Cape Inscription is laid up as part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet in a layberth at Long Beach, CA. in ROS-5 status

Specifications:
Displacement 15,000 t.(lt) 33,900 t.(lt)
Length 655'
Beam 102'
Draft 32' (max)
Speed 18.7 kts.

Complement

Full Operational Status 31

Reduced Operational Status 9

Armament none

Propulsion

two steam turbines

two propellers

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
Merchant Service Lykes Bros. SS. Co.
	312k	Lykes Cargoliner SS Tyson Lykes working cargo at Honolulu, HI. in October 1979.	Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
SS Cape Inscription (AKR-5076) MARAD RRF
	73k	*SS Cape Inscription* (AKR-5076)** underway, date and location unknown.	MSC web site
	53k	*SS Cape Inscription* (AKR-5076)** underway, date and location unknown. MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	433k	*SS Cape Inscription* (AKR-5076)** berthed at Rotterdam, The Netherlands, early 1990s.	Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
	49k	*SS Cape Inscription* (AKR-5076)** underway, date and location unknown. MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	67k	*SS Cape Inscription* (AKR-5076)** underway, date and location unknown. MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	119k	*SS Cape Inscription* (AKR-5076)** underway, date and location unknown. MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	230k	*SS Cape Inscription* (AKR-5076)** sits fully-loaded at Tacoma's Blair Terminal after loading more than 90,000 square feet of cargo for the Army's 81st Armor Brigade bound for Kuwait, February 2007.	Bill Gonyo
	256k	*SS Cape Inscription* (AKR-5076)** in her layberth at Terminal Island, Long Beach, CA. in May 2009.	Photo by Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
	89k	*SS Cape Inscription* (AKR-5076) and SS Cape Isabel (AKR-5062) in their layberths at Terminal Island, Long Beach, CA., 1 July 2010. Moored alongside Cape Isabel is the Odyssey Sea Launch Platform**. Photo by Geo-Cache Dishfan.	Tommy Trampp.