MV Cape Vincent (T-AKR-9666) was built as MV Marzario Italia, in 1984 at Italcantieri S.P. A., Italy. After launch, it was delivered to CMB Italy after which it was briefly renamed MV Taabo Italia. She was acquired on 13 May 1993, by the US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration and renamed MV Cape Vincent, 1 February 1994, assigned to the Maritime Administration's Ready Reserve Force. When activated Cape Vincent is one of the Maritime Administration's 31 Roll-on/Roll-off Reserve Force Ships assigned to the US Navy's Military Sealift Command

Military Sealift Command

The Military Sealift Command is a United States Navy organization that controls most of the replenishment and military transport ships of the Navy. It first came into existence on 9 July 1949 when the Military Sea Transportation Service became solely responsible for the Department of Defense's...

(MSC) Sealift Program Office. Cape Vincent is laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Beaumont, TX. in ROS-5 status

External links

• http://www.marad.dot.gov/documents/i101231.pdf National Defense Reserve Fleet Inventory]