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MV Cape Diamond (AKR-5055)

International Radio Call Sign:
Whiskey - Mike - Hotel - Juliet WMHJ

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

Laid down in 1972, as MV Tricolor, Gironde, France, for Wilhelmsen Line (Norwegian Flag)

Launched, date unknown

Delivered for mercantile service, 7 September 1972

Acquired by Barber Steamship Co., date unknown

Purchased from Barber Steamship Co. by the US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, 16 October 1985

Renamed MV Cape Diamond

Assigned to MARAD Ready Reserve Force, (RRF), MV Cape Diamond (AKR-5055)

MV Cape Diamond (AKR-5055) 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 Diamond 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
Commercial Service
	264k	MV Tricolor underway in a New Zealand port, 12 October 1972. Photo by Mike Cornwall from the Chris Howell collection.	Chris Howell, Southland Ship Stores Limited, Port of Bluff, N.Z.
	346k	MV Tricolor moored pierside at a port in New Zealand, date unknown. Photo from the Chris Howell collection.	Chris Howell, Southland Ship Stores Limited, Port of Bluff, N.Z.
	77k	MV Tricolor at Bremerhaven, Germany in September 1980.	Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
0954505514	532k	MV Tricolor underway, date and locaiton unknown.	US Maritime Administration photo
MV Cape Diamond (AKR-5055) - MARAD RRF
	77k	*MV Cape Diamond* (AKR-5055)** moored pierside, date and location unknown.	Military Sealift Command
	79k	*MV Cape Diamond* (AKR-5055)** moored pierside while vehicles are being stowed on her main deck, date and location unknown.	Maritime Administration
	109k	*MV Cape Diamond* (AKR-5055)** moored pierside while vehicles are loaded aboard, date and location unknown.	Maritime Administration
	75k	*MV Cape Diamond* (AKR-5055)** moored pierside, date and location unknown.	Maritime Administration
	70k	*MV Cape Diamond* (AKR-5055)** moored pierside while vehicles are loaded aboard, date and location unknown.	Maritime Administration
	88k	*MV Cape Diamond* (AKR-5055)** moored pierside while vehicles are loaded aboard, date and location unknown.	Maritime Administration
	74k	*MV Cape Diamond* (AKR-5055)** underway, date and location unknown.	Maritime Administration
	64k	*MV Cape Diamond* (AKR-5055)** underway, date and location unknown.	Maritime Administration web site
	84k	*MV Cape Diamond* (AKR-5055)** at New York City, N.Y., October 1986.	Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
	94k	Port quarter view of *MV Cape Diamond* (AKR-5055)** moored pierside at Moon Engineering Co. Shipyard, Norfolk, VA., 24 August 1989. DVIC photos # DN-ST-90-09598 by Don Montgomery, from the collections of the US Defense Visual Information Center.	Bill Gonyo
0954505515	260k	A M998 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) pulling a trailer as it exits from the stern ramp of *MV Cape Diamond* (AKR-5055)*, 24 Aug 1991. Equipment is being offloaded from the vessel during "Exercise Reforger '91". US Department of Defense photo #DNSC920465* by Capt. Peterson.	Robert Hurst