Mauna Kea (AE 22) - Naval Cruise Book

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1ACTERI TICS 1 1 1 1 I USS RANGER qcv 615 USS CHOSIN CCG 655 il USNS PECOS CT-A0197 I USS DIXON QAS 375 I USS WABASH CAOR 55 USNS KILAUEA QT-AE26 USS FANNING QPF 10765 USS LASALLE CAGF 31 USS TAYLOR CFFG 505 Mv LAWRENCE H. GIANELLA USS KINKAID CDD 9655 USS PAUL F. FoSTER CDD 9645 USS JOUETT CCG 295 USS KIRK CFP 10875 USS HEWITT IDD 9665 USS NIAGRA FALLS CAPS 35 USS KITTY HAWK qcv 635 USS SACRAMENTO CAOE 15 USS HALEAKALA QAE 255 USS FLINT CAE 325 STATS 4,000 TONS AMMO TRANSFERRED 962 VERTREPED 107 DAYS AT SEA 47 UNREPS 25,000 -1- MILES TRANSITED 1,515 CONREPED LIFTS Delivered 275 MGALS fuel Cfour times more than our previous deploymentj USS MAUNA KEA operated in EASTPAC, WESTPAC, Indian Ocean, Arabian Gulf, transited ISE the Pacific Ocean, South Pacific. We transited the Straits of Surigao, Balabac, Malacca and Hormuz. Port Visits: Singapore, Phuket, Thailandg Jebel Ali, UAE, Bahraing Fremantle and Sydney, Australia, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

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Displacement: Length: Beam: Draft: Height above water: Propulsion: Speed: Crew: Guns: Cargo holds: Cargo elevators Replenishment stations: Hekicopter facilities: Fuel capacity: , fs, ,A . Fuel delivery: Electricity: Feed f fresh water: Firemain system: Anchors: Durin SHIPS CHAR 12,500 tons standard, 17,745 tons y full load 512 feet if 'F 72 feet p 29.feet maximum. ppyrr 3 ggi Bridge, 57 feet: Signal Bridge, 641661 2 D-type boilers i600 psi steam pressure, 850 degrees FJ 1 main engine 116,00 shaft horsepower ahead 4,500 asternj 1 29-ton, 4 bladed propeller, 21.5 feet in diameter 1 20.6 knots tabout 24 mphj 17 officers, 303 enlisted two 3-inch 50 caliber twin gunmounts fig Five with capacity for 3260 tons of ammunition and stores Five elevators serve holds 2,3,4,5, and deck Starboard side: 2 Streamsstations and 1 delivery station Port side: 2 Stream Flight deck aft provides helolanding refueling, cargo pickup and delivery area: 712,000 gallons diesel fuel marine CF-761. if 20,000 gallons JP-5 aircraft fuel :,:i,si, 900 gallons f minute F-76 from All three turbine generators produce amperes, 60 hertz, 450 volts. and 750 kilowatts under normal conditions. An additional diesel generator provides 300 Kilowatts emergency electrical power. Two 2-stage. flash-type evaporators distill 24,000 gallons daily Each one of four fire pumps produces 130 psi of pressure in the firemain system Two 9-ton standard stockless anchors. ThC 1 portanehor chain is 165 fathoms of 900 feet long: the starboard anchor chain is 135 fathoms or X10 feet long. g deployment, the Liss MAUNA KIA Martell services to zo ships! They are: if P station 50 gallonsfm1nuteJP-5 on the

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I I , 1 , , ' from2 tons of ammunition during two hugldred seventy underway replenishment epwmons v 1 1 ks r- -wiki?-H-elf X SS MAUNA KEA CAE 221, the second of five Suribachi-class ammllllftlon Sh?S'J'aS 1 built by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at their Sparrows Point Shipyard in Mary an an MAUNA KEA's keel was laid 16 May 1955, and she was launched the following year 6 3 May. Named for the volcano whose peak is the highest in the Hawaiian Islands, h MAUNA KEA was commissioned in a ceremony held at Sparrows Point on 30 Marc E 1957 and was orginally homeported at Mare Island, Vallejo, California. Iiier ma1denl960 - deployment to the Western Pacific began in November of that year, and in October she became the first ammunition ship to transfer missiles at sea. Q . ' m MAUNA KEA played a vital role in support of U.S. Seventh Fleet during theegsigg conflict. The ship earned the Vietnam Campaign Award twelve times andtvvas Prf 24 000 two Meritorious Unit Commendations, the first for the safe and timely de11VCfY 0 ' 3, 1 4