The SS ''Cape Isabel'' (AKR-5062) was originally launched in 1976 as the SS ''Nevada,'' a
Type C7 commercial ship. The States SS company took the first contract in 1976 and it operated until it was transferred to
Lykes Brothers Lykes Brothers Inc, is a corporation founded by the Lykes Family of Tampa, Florida, in 1910. This family would become the largest landowners in Florida, the ninth largest landowners in the United States and the wealthiest in Tampa Bay.
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steamship company and renamed the SS ''Charles Lykes''. Later the ship was reacquired from its commercial roles and brought back under military control via the Maritime Administration and renamed the ''Cape Isabel''. Since then it has been kept in ready reserve status and used occasionally for heavy lifting operations to European theaters to have equipment air-lifted to active engagements. It has heavily participated in
Operation Enduring Freedom ferrying goods across the Atlantic to staging points in Europe. As of August 2021, the ship is undergoing recommissioning at Vigor Shipyards in Portland, Oregon.
External links
* http://www.msc.navy.mil/inventory/ships.asp?ship=40 Ship's official page on Military Sealift Command
* http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/54/545062.htm Ship photo index NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive
* http://wikimapia.org/5155486/SS-Cape-Isabel-AKR-5062-SS-Cape-Inscription-AKR-5076 Wikimapia site
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Ships built in Bath, Maine
1976 ships
Cape I-class cargo ships