USS Hassayampa (AO-145) USNS Hassayampa (T-AO 145)

USS Hassayampa (AO-145)
United States Navy
15 April 1955 - 17 November 1978

Home Port Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

USNS Hassayampa (T-AO 145)
Military Sealift Command
17 November 1978 - 2 October 1991

*************                                                                                                        "Cashmere Delta"
*************                                                                                                           "Humpin' Hass"
*************                                                                                          "Finest Oiler in the Fleet, she was."

1955

(click on the red-highlighted years for images of that year)

1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963
1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972
1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 ~
~ ~ 1981-1991 ~ 1990-1991 ~ ~
~ ~ Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet ~ ~


1st Div - Commissioning Day
Earliest known photo of USS Hassayampa (AO-145) as a Commissioned Naval Ship - taken April 19, 1955
1955 ComServPac Championship Softball Team
USS Hassayampa (AO-145)

USS Hassayampa (AO-145) was launched

12 September 1954

by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation
Camden, New Jersey
sponsored by Mrs. Jean H. Holloway
wife of Vice Admiral Holloway

USS Hassayampa (AO-145) was commissioned

19 April 1955

Captain William V. McKaig, in command