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1964
USS Hassayampa (AO-145)
USNS Hassayampa (T-AO 145)
(click on the red-highlighted
years for images of that year)
USS Hassayampa (AO-145) preparing for WestPac Cruise, summer 1964
USS Hassayampa (AO-145) underway during WestPac Cruise, summer 1964
USS Hassayampa (AO-145) refueling USS Constellation (CV-64) to port;
USS Richard B. Anderson (DD-786) to starboard; c. 1964
USS Hassayampa (AO-145) underway during WestPac Cruise, summer 1964
USS Hassayampa (AO-145) refueling two heavy cruisers, WestPac Cruise, summer 1964
USS Saint Paul (CA-73) to port and USS Helena (CA-75) to starboard
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 neededd 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 over. 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)
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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, 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 (AO-145), 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.
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