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."

1969

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CAPT Julian Lake 10/68-06/69 CAPT Jack E. Waits 06/69-10/70
XO CDR T. G. Caston 08/68-02/70

 

On 22 July 1969, USS Hassayampa (AO-145) refueled USS Hornet (CVS-12) during the Apollo 11 recovery mission. Hornet's deck log shows this occurring on July 22, 1969, about 36 hours before she picked up the Apollo 11 astronauts and crew fresh from their lunar excursion. This photo insertion has been made possible by Bob Fish, Trustee, USS Hornet Museum and former Hornet XO Chris Lamb.

Helmsman during this underway replenishment with USS Hornet (CVS-12) was
Chuck Snyder, QM2, USS Hassayampa (AO-145), 1967-1971

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USS Hassayampa (AO 145) refuels USS Hornet (CVS 12) during the ships' participation
in the recovery of the Apollo 11 space capsule and astronauts

View from the cockpit of an SH-3 Sea King showing USS Hassayampa (AO 145) 
refueling USS Hornet (CVS 12) during the ships' participation in the recovery of the Apollo 11
space capsule and astronauts

USS Hassayampa (AO 145) refuels USS Hornet (CVS 12) during the ships' participation
in the recovery of the Apollo 11 space capsule and astronauts

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USS Hassayampa (AO-145) looking astern from mid-ship, c. 1969

Gunnery practice, Mount 32,  c. 1969

USS Hassayampa (AO-145), center foreground, in American Samoa, c. 1969

(photos in this set courtesy of Chuck Snyder; QM2; USS Hassayampa (AO-145), 1967-1971)

Captain Julian S. Lake (October 1968 - June 1969) chatting with Rear Admiral R. Ward,
arriving from USS Enterprise (CVN-65) during underway replenishment c. April 1969

Captain Julian S. Lake (October 1968 - June 1969) chatting with Rear Admiral R. Ward,
arriving from USS Enterprise (CVN-65) during underway replenishment c. April 1969


(L-R) USS Meredith (DD-890), USS Enterprise (CVN-65), USS Hassayampa (AO-145),
USS Dale (DLG-19), USS Benjamin Stoddert (DDG-22), Yellow Sea (c) April 1969
(Photo courtesy Richard Leonhardt)

     

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