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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

Left contributed by Mike Smolinski, Right Contributed by Wolfgang Hechler

SS Cape Intrepid (AKR-11)
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USNS Jupiter (T-AKR-11) (1976 - 1986)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Echo - Mike - Yankee NEMY

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
National Defense Service Medal

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

Laid down, 27 January 1975 as SS Arizona a Maritime Administration type (C7-S-95a) hull, at Bath Iron Works Corp. Bath, ME.

Launched, 1 November 1976

Delivered to MARAD, 29 January 1979, for turnover to States Line

Handed over, 29 January 1979, to Lykes Bros, Shipping Line and renamed SS Lipscomb Lykes

Acquired by the Military Sealift Command (MSC) and placed in service as USNS Jupiter (T-AKR-11), 7 May 1980, under the management of Crowley Liner Services of Jacksonville, FL

Assigned to the Military Sealift Command Near Term Prepositioning Force (NTPF) in support of the equipment of the 7th Marine Amphibious Brigade

Charter completed, 6 December 1985

Returned to MARAD control, 26 April 1986

Renamed SS Cape Intrepid, 22 November 1993 and assigned to the Maritime Administration's Ready Reserve Force, (RRF) as SS Cape Intrepid (AKR-11) 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 Intrepid (AKR-11) is laid up as part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet in a layberth at Commencement Bay, Tacoma, WA. in ROS-5 status

Specifications:
Displacement 15,000 t.(lt) 33,900 t.(fl)
Length 685'
Beam 102'
Draft 32'
Speed 18.7

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
USNS Jupiter (T-AKR-11)
	77k	*Namesake* Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant planet with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two-and-a-half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. Jupiter has been known to astronomers since antiquity. It is named after the Roman god Jupiter. Jupiter is the third brightest natural object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus. NASA - An image of Jupiter taken by the Hubble Space Telescope	Tommy Trampp
	17k	*USNS Jupiter* (T-AKR-11)** under way, date and location unknown. US Navy photo.	Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
	41k	*USNS Mercury* (T-AKR-10) foreground, with her stern vehicle ramp partially extended, and USNS Jupiter (T-AKR-11)** and an unidentified tanker in the background. They are part of the initial maritime prepositioning force shown on station, August 1980. US Navy photo from "US Amphibious Boats and Craft", by Norman Friedman.	Robert Hurst
SS Cape Intrepid (AKR-11) - MSC RRF
	78k	*SS Cape Intrepid* (AKR-11)** underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo	MSC web site
	30k	*SS Cape Intrepid* (AKR-11)** moored pierside, date and location unknown. MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	37k	*SS Cape Intrepid* (AKR-11)** underway with assistance of tugs, date and location unknown. MARAD photo	US Maritime Administration
	374k	*SS Cape Intrepid* (AKR-10) moored with SS Cape Island (AKR-11)** in their layberths at Commencement Bay, Tacoma, WA., in August 2013	Photos by Tom Langford
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