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AE-6 Shasta

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Alpha - Zulu - Whiskey
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons




Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive - February 1945, Iwo Jima)
Second Row - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (5)
Third Row - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
Fourth Row - Vietnam Service Medal (1) - Philippine Liberation Medal - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal
Lassen Class Ammunition Ship:
  • Laid down, 12 August 1940, as a Maritime Commission type (C2 Cargo) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 125) at Tampa Shipbuilding Corp., Tampa, FL.
  • Launched (date unknown)
  • Acquired by the US Navy from the Maritime Commission, 16 April 1941
  • Commissioned USS Shasta (AE-6), 9 July 1941
  • Decommissioned, 10 August 1946, at San Diego, CA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group
  • Recommissioned, 15 July 1953
  • Decommissioned (date unknown) at NAB Little Creek, VA. in 1969
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1969
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping to Isaac Valera, Revalorizacionde Materials, SA, Madrid, Spain
  • Shasta earned five battle stars for World War II service and one campaign star and the Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation for Vietnam War service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 6.350 t.(lt) 13.855 t.(fl)
    Length 459'
    Beam 63'
    Draft 25' 11"
    Speed 16 kts.
    Complement 280
    Armament one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount, four single 3"/50 gun mounts. two twin 40mm gun mounts, eight twin 20mm gun mounts
    Cargo Capacity 5,000 DWT
    Propulsion diesel, single shaft, 6,000hp
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    Shasta 117k Aft plan view of Shasta (AE-6) at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., 10 January 1945. The ex-Tamalpais (auto ferry) servicing as YHB-21 during World War II is at left.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 298-45.    		 Darryl Baker
    Shasta 100k Forward plan view of Shasta (AE-6) at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., 10 January 1945. YHB-21, the ex auto ferry Tamalpais, four berthing barges and YHB-2, ex auto ferry Port of Stockton, are moored across from Shasta.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 300-45.    		 Darryl Baker
    Shasta 68k Stern view of Shasta (AE-6) off Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., 11 January 1945.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 363-45.    		 Darryl Baker
    Shasta 64k Broadside view of Shasta (AE-6) at anchor off Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., 11 January 1945.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 365-45.    		 Darryl Baker
    Shasta 67k Bows on view of Shasta (AE-6) at anchor off Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., 11 January 1945.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 367-45.    		 Darryl Baker
    Shasta 328k Shasta (AE-6) and Enterprise (CVN-65) during a Replenishment at Sea (RAS), date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, August 1962.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Shasta 86k Shasta (AE-6) at anchor in Hampton Roads, VA., July 1964 © Richard Leonhardt
    Shasta 62k Shasta (AE-6) passing the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in Hampton Roads in 1965.
    US Navy photo    		 Michael Boyd for his father F.M. Boyd SF1 USN USS Shasta 1954-55
    Shasta 23k Shasta (AE-6) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 .
    Shasta 91k Shasta (AE-6) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, October 1969.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
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