MV Cape Ray explained
-- warships except submarines -->| Ship Caption: | MV Cape Ray (T-AKR-9679) in 2014 |
| Ship Displacement: | 32,054 tons | | Ship Length: | 647' 6" | | Ship Beam: | 105' 6" | | Ship Draft: | 32' 6" | | Ship Propulsion: |
| | Ship Speed: | 19.75 kts. |
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The 648-foot
roll-on/roll-off and
container ship, built in 1977, was previously known as
MV Saudi Makkah and
MV Seaspeed Asia. She can carry 1,315 containers and has both
bow and stern thrusters.
After being acquired on 29 April 1994, was in the Ready Reserve Force.[3] She is generally used to transport vehicles to war zones from the United States.
Syrian weapons destruction
left|thumb|Some of the chemical weapons destruction equipment deployed on MV Cape RayCape Ray played a central role in the 2014 destruction of Syria's declared stockpile of chemical weapons. For that mission she was under the command of civilian master Rick Jordan and was outfitted with two Field Deployable Hydrolysis Systems manned by United States Army civilians, who then performed the destruction operations at sea.[4]
On 16 January 2014 the Italian Minister of Infrastructures and Transports, Maurizio Lupi, said that MV Cape Ray would load 530 tons of chemical weapons material in the port of Gioia Tauro in Calabria, Italy, from the Danish ship MV Ark Futura.[5] She deployed on 25 June 2014.
Notes and References
- Web site: NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive MV Cape Ray (AKR-9679). NavSource Naval History. 3 January 2014.
- Book: Polmar, Norman. Norman Polmar
. Norman Polmar. The Naval Institute Guide to the Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet. 2005. Naval Institute Press. Annapolis, Maryland. 978-1591146858. 316. 18. 3 January 2014.
- Web site: U.S. Delivers Gear to Destroy Syrian Chemical Arms at Sea. Defense Treaty Ready Inspection Readiness Program. 3 January 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140103203058/http://dtirp.dtra.mil/CBW/News/displayArticle.aspx?displayFile=NG%2Fng_02dec13.htm. 3 January 2014.
- News: Cape Cape Ray neutralizes Syrian chemical materials . August 2014 . www.msc.navy.mil . U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command. 2 March 2017.
- News: Davies. Lizzy. Italian mayor dismayed as port chosen for Syrian chemical weapons transfer. 17 January 2014. The Guardian. 16 January 2014.
