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KAWISHIWI is literally a city afloat ! Her huge generators produce enough electric power to meet the needs of a sizable community. She boasts such conveniences as a laundry, tailor shop, clothing store, soda fountain, ship ' s store ( selling film, razor blades, toothpaste, and dozens of other personal and gift items), library, U. S. Post Office, bakery, machine shop, barber shop, cobbler shop, hospital, and hobby shop. The ship carries the most modern movie projection equipment, and nightly movies aboard are part of the ship ' s routine both underway and in port. Though most ladies won ' t tell their age quite so readily, KAWISHIWI ' s youth is no secret. She was built by the New York Shipbuilding Co. of Camden, N. J., the keel was laid in October 1953, she was launched in December 1954, and commissioned in July 1955. Her original home port was Long Beach, California where she arrived after a voyage from the East Coast via the Panama Canal. Pearl Harbor has been home to KAWISHIWI and her crew since January 1958. Her record is a a proud one, including two consecutive years as winner of the coveted Battle Efficiency Award, followed by two years as runner-up. An interesting KAWISHIWI first took place in December 1958, at which time a weight simulating an actual load was transferred between USS VESUVIUS and ourselves. This weight of 10,000 pounds set a record for the heaviest load ever transferred between two ships underway. KAWISHIWI is currently the proud holder, again for the second consecutive year, of a plaque awarded for the meritorious conduct of her crew while ashore in Hong Kong, British Crown Colony. Justly deserving, justly proud, KAWISHIWI men strive to present a picture as the Navy ' s finest. Our officers and men come from every state in the Union including Alaska and Hawaii. We also number as shipmates nationals of Guam and the Republic of the Philippines. This interesting mixture of racial and cultural backgrounds aboard ship is very appropriate to the cosmopolitan setting of Hawaii, and KAWISHIWI is proud indeed to carry the ALOHA spirit with her in calling at various ports throughout the vast Pacific. Shipmate is a term peculiar to the seafaring fraternity the world over; it is an all-embracing term that covers a multitude of human emotions, but in KAWISHIWI, especially, it means that you ' re part of the heartbeat of a mighty ship.
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