USS Hassayampa (AO-145) USNS Hassayampa (T-AO 145) - "Finest Oiler in the Fleet, she was"


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

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

(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)