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MV Cape Kennedy

ship built in 1979

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ11698191 ↗
Source-derived summary

MV Cape Kennedy (T-AKR 5083) is one of the United States Military Sealift Command's 27 Roll-on/Roll-off Ships and one of the 44 Ready Reserve Force (RRF) ships in the Sealift Program Office. She is the sister ship of MV Cape Knox

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This article incorporates public domain material from Cape Kennedy (AKR-5083) at the Naval Vessel Register.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “MV Cape Kennedy” is ship built in 1979. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Cape, Kennedy and ship, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 57-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Cape, Kennedy and ship is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11698191. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “MV Cape Kennedy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.