| USS Shasta (AE-33) | |
|---|---|
 USS Shasta in 1974 | |
| Career (US) |  |
| Name: | USS Mount Shasta (AE-33) |
| Namesake: | Mount Shasta |
| Awarded: | 8 March 1968 |
| Builder: | Ingalls Shipbuilding |
| Laid down: | 10 November 1969 |
| Launched: | 3 April 1971 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Ralph W. Cousins |
| Commissioned: | 4 February 1972 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 October 1997 |
| In service: | with Military Sealift Command 1 October 1997 |
| Out of service: | 29 April 2011 |
| Status: | in reserve |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Kilauea-class ammunition ship |
| Displacement: |
Light: 10,417 tons Full load: 18,088 tons |
| Length: | 564 ft (172 m) |
| Beam: | 81 ft (25 m) |
| Draft: | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
| Propulsion: |
3 × boilers steam turbines single shaft 22,000 shp |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Complement: |
28 officers 375 enlisted |
| Armament: | 2 × 3″50 twin mounts, 12 × .50 cals, 2 × CIWS(Close in Weapon System) |
| Aircraft carried: | 2 CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters |
USS Shasta (AE-33) was a Kilauea-class replenishment ammunition ship of the United States Navy. She was named after Mount Shasta, a volcano in the Cascade Range in northern California, USA.
Shasta's keel was laid down 10 November 1969 at the Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi, sponsored by Mrs. Ralph W. Cousins, wife of the Vice Chief of Naval Operations. She was launched on 3 April 1971. Upon completion, the builder took her to Charleston, South Carolina and delivered her to the Navy. Shasta was commissioned in Charleston on 4 February 1972, with Captain Warren C. Graham, Jr., in command.
After fitting out, the newly commissioned Shasta departed Charleston on 22 May 1972 for her shakedown cruise and training at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. After completing shakedown and training on 10 June, she headed for the Pacific, where her new homeport was to be the Naval Weapons Station in Concord, California. Along the way, she made port visits to Kingston, Jamaica; Cartagena, Colombia; Panama City, Canal Zone; and Acapulco, Mexico. She passed through the Panama Canal and finally arrived in Concord on 3 July.
After arrival in Concord, she underwent ship’s qualification trials and final contract trials. Upon completion of trials and preparations for deployment, Shasta departed Concord to join the 7th Fleet in the western Pacific (WestPac in US Navy terminology) on 3 January 1973.
Shasta was decommissioned on 1 October 1997 as a "United States Ship" and transferred to the Fleet Auxiliary Force of the Military Sealift Command (MSC) as a "United States Naval Ship." On the same day, her hull number was changed and she became USNS Shasta (T-AE-33). She was inactivated on 21 April 2011 and is in the reserve fleet
References[]
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
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Shasta in the Pacific, 2002
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