USS Shasta (AE-33)
USS Shasta in 1974
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| Name: | USS 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, Pearl Harbor |
| Homeport: | Naval Weapons Station, Concord, California |
| Motto: | "We serve anytime, anywhere;" "It has to be Shasta;" "Max Flex" |
| Fate: | Scrapped, Brownsville, Texas, 2013–2014 |
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| Class and type: | Kilauea-class ammunition ship |
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| Length: | 564 ft (172 m) |
| Beam: | 81 ft (25 m) |
| Draft: | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
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| Speed: | 23 knots (43 km/h) |
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| 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. Shasta's mission was to support forward deployed aircraft carrier battle groups, which she accomplished through underway replenishment (known as "unrep") and vertical replenishment (known as "vertrep"). Shasta and her crew honorably served their country in this role in war and peace across three decades, from Vietnam, to the Cold War, to the Iran-Iraq War, to Operation Desert Storm, and numerous other actions.
To accomplish her underway replenishment mission, Shasta utilized seven underway replenishment stations utilizing the Standard Tensioned Replenishment Alongside Method (STREAM), and utilized four cargo booms to load and unload cargo. To accomplish her vertical replenishment mission, Shasta embarked two CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters together with their air and maintenance crews; Shasta's ship's company ran the flight deck and tower. Shasta's Deck Department was among the best in the United States Pacific Fleet.
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.
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