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Description:
The Cross Sound Ferry Cape Henlopen seen departing New London, Connecticut on April 10, 2010.
She was originally built as USS Buncombe County (LST-510), served in the D-Day Invasion, and converted into a car and passenger ferry in 1966 for the Lewes, Delaware-Cape May, New Jersey run. She was sold to Cross Sound Ferry in 1983 and continues to run, making her perhaps the only D-Day participant still in active service.
Name: MV Cape Henlopen
IMO Number: 5381978
Call Sign: WM5958
Length: 327 feet
Displacement: 1492 tons
Built: 1944, Jeffersonville Boat and Machine Company, Jeffersonville, Indiana
Flag: U.S.A.
Powerplant: EMD 12-645 diesel engines
Former name(s):
- Virginia Beach (Until 1965 Jan)
- Buncombe County Lst 510 (Until 1961)
- Buncombe County (Until 1959)
- Lst 510 (Until 1955 Jul)
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