[2] After being acquired on 29 April 1994,[1] MV Cape Ray (T-AKR-9679) was in the Ready Reserve Force.

[3] She is generally used to transport vehicles to war zones from the United States.

Cape Ray played a central role in the 2014 destruction of Syria's declared stockpile of chemical weapons.

The ship 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.