Hassayampa (AO 145) - Naval Cruise Book

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Length 655 feet Extreme Beam 86 feet Maximum Draft 36 feet Loaded Displacement 40,000 tons Shaft Horsepower 28,000

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CONTENTS Ship ' s History Schedule of Cruise CO and XO Biographies Captain ' s Foreword Executive Division Operations Department Deck Department Engineering Department Supply Department Cookout Philippines Singapore Thailand Equator Crossing 1,000,000th Barrel Hong Kong HASSAYAMPA Legend Helo Detail General Quarters Holiday Routine Change of Command Cruise Statistics Home Coming Aloha

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SHIP ' S HISTORY i; . - The HASSAYAMPA is the third of a class of six large fleet oilers commissioned by the navy. The HASSAYAMPA was built by the New York shipbuilding corpora- tion of Camden, New Jersey; she was launched on September 12, 1954; and com- missioned at the Philadelpia Naval Shipyard on April 19, 1955. The HASS has completed over three thousand replenishments at sea, in addition to having delivered over one and a half million pounds of mail to U.S. servicemen afloat. Since her com- missioning the HASSAYAMPA has operated throughout the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. HASSAYAMPA is attached to Service Squadron Five of the Third Fleet, and is home ported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. As a fleet oiler, she provides vital at-sea logistics support for the major task groups of the Pacific Fleet. HASSAYAMPA has supported the Seventh Fleet during many critical periods such as the Nationalist Chinese transport convoys during the Quemoymatsu Crisis of 1958, the movement of marines into Thailand in 1962, and the Tonkin Gulf Crisis. In 1964. HASSAYAMPA played the role of ambassador while attached to the Concord Squadron which visited foreign ports in the Indian Ocean from Malaysia to the MUteffl cotut of Africa. She has also served as a recovery logistic ship during the Gemini eight and nine, and Apollo eleven and twelve space shots. i. vj ' i