Ship Underway MV CAPE HENRY
Channel: Shipside tv
Date: 2022-12-07

The Cape Henry was originally built as a commercial ship in 1979 and sold to the Ocean Transport and Trading Co. with the name Barber Priam. It served as a merchant ship until it was purchased by the US Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, on 30 September 1986. Operated under contract by Marine Transport Lines of Weehawken.
She was anchored in the Bay of Gibraltar on 18 May 1993.
It was later transferred to the Maritime Administrations Ready reserve fleet and assigned to San Francisco.