USS HASSAYAMPA (AO-145)

United States Navy

Home Port Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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1964

Chief Lange standing alongside railing damage after collision with USS Cimmaron (AO-22)
during a consolidation exercise on the Indian Ocean Cruise, 1964.
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"The story goes that a sailor on watch in after steering got tired and bored and decided that he needed a game to play to stay awake. He decided he could pull the pintle pin on the rudder and put it back in before the rudder moved! He couldn't. One of the photos on the Hass web page shows the damage to the port side aft just outside the CPO quarters and me dressed in my pollywog clothes. I'm wearing a mess cook apron and a hat cover. You can see the bent stanchions. It's the port side aft looking forward. The boat davits next deck up were pretty well screwed up too! And paintwork of course!"

Randall Lange, April 9, 2004

Hassayampa undergoing consolidation exercises with USS Cimmaron (AO-22) c. 1964
(see caption regarding preceding photo)

Frank Knox (DDR-742) coming alongside to starboard for replenishment, c. 1964

On the bridge during anchoring drills off Waikiki in 1964. CAPT Archer R. Gordon and
Executive Officer LCDR Richard T. Whithead, both deceased

Concord Squadron, Rear Admiral R. B. Moore, commanding
USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31), USS Shelton (DD-790), USS Blue (DD-744)
USS Frank Knox (DDR-742) and USS Hassayampa (AO-145)