Shasta (AE 33) - Naval Cruise Book

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BLAZE hasta h Hghts Hre at sea Sailors onboard USS SI-IASTA CAE-331 were part of a multina-F tional naval effort to contain a civilian merchant ship fire while opq. ating in the Arabian Gulf. On 29 March 1991, USS SHASTA joined Royal Naval Ship HMS BRILLIANT, Spanish Naval Ship SNS VICTORIA, and USS FRANCIS HAMMOND and USS NIAGRA FALLS ina fourteen hour effort to contain and extinguish fire onboard the MV MERCS I-IORANA, a merchant cargo ship registered out of CSoknnbo,SriLanka. USS SHASTA began sending fire fighting equipment to the scene by helicopter at 2145 flocal timel while still twenty milesa and arrived on station by 2230. Rescue and assistance teams were immediately sent over by utility boats along with the latest in naval fire fighting and damage control equipment. USS SI-IASTA contributed over 312,000 of consumable fire fighting and damage control equipment. Equipment included hoses portable pumps, food CBA breathing cannisters, battle lantems, even the newest Naval Fire Fighting Thermal Imager QNIFTD, u identify heat sources or bodies in smokeffilled environements. By time the fire was extinguished and overhauled, over 70 SHASTA sailors had been directl involved on the decks of the MERCS Y HORANA.

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