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."

1964

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USS Hassayampa (AO-145) refueling USS Constellation (CV-64) to port;
USS Richard B. Anderson (DD-786) to starboard; c. 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

USS Hassayampa (AO-145) undergoing consolidation exercises with USS Cimmaron (AO-22) c. 1964
(see caption under preceding photo)

USS 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 (l) and
Executive Officer LCDR Richard T. Whithead (r)

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)

On 23 January 1963, Hassayampa deployed to the Far East to resume duty with the 7th Fleet. Returning to Pearl Harbor 15 June 1963, she underwent a modernization overhaul from October 1963 to January 1964. She again sailed for the Western Pacific 12 March 1964. On 31 March 1964, she joined a Navy carrier task force from Subic Bay, Philippines for operations in the Indian Ocean. On 4 April 1964, the  Concord Squadron,  commanded by Rear Admiral R. B. Moore and composed of Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) the destroyers Shelton (DD-790), Blue (DD-744), Frank Knox (DD-742) and Hassayampa, entered the Indian Ocean from the Pacific and began a 6-week goodwill cruise which carried it near Iran, the Arabian Peninsula, Malaysia, the African Coast and into ports along the way for good will visits, until returning to Subic Bay 16 May 1964.