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AE-22 Mauna Kea

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Secretary of the Navy Letter of Commendation
Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation (2)
Second Row - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (2) - National Defense Service Medal - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (5-Taiwan Straits, 4-Quemoy-Matsu, 6-Vietnam, 1-Persian Gulf)
Third Row - Vietnam Service Medal (12) - Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation (12) - Vietnam Campaign Medal
Suribachi Class Ammunition Ship:
  • Laid down, 6 May 1955, at Bethlehem Steel Shipyard, Inc, Sparrows Point, MD.
  • Launched, 3 May 1956
  • Commissioned, USS Mauna Kea (AD-22), 30 March 1957
  • During the Vietnam War Mauna Kea participated in the following campaigns:
    Vietnam War Campaigns
    Campaign and Dates Campaign and Dates
    Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase II
    24 January to 8 February 1967
    18 February to 17 March 1967
    30 March to 13 April 1967
    29 April to 18 May 1967
    24 to 31 May1967     		Summer-Fall 1969
    14 June to 9 July 1969
    30 July to 18 August 1969
    29 August to 18 September 1969
    1 to 21 October 1969
    Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase III
    1 to 17 June 1967
    1 to 19 July 1967     		Sanctuary Counteroffensive
    24 to 30 June 1970
    Tet Counteroffensive
    15 March to 1 April 1968     		Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VII
    1 7 July 1970
    18 July to 9 August 1970
    25 August to 3 September 1970
    27 September to 18 October 1970
    2 to 14 November 1970
    20 November to 2 December 1970
    15 to 31 December 1970
    9 to 13 January 1971
    Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase IV
    2 April 1968
    10 to 24 April 1968
    16 to 28 June 1968     		Consolidation I
    19 August to 3 September 1971
    12 to 21 September 1971
    13 to 18 October 1971
    29 October to 8 November 1971
    15 to 26 November 1971
    Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase V
    7 to 17 July 1968
    27 July to 6 August 1968
    17 to 28 August 1968
    7 to 15 and 25 to 26 September 1968     		Consolidation II
    15 to 23 December 1971
    2 to 13 January 1972
    Tet 69/Counteroffensive
    11 to 27 April 1969
    4 to 15 May 1969
    24 May to 5 June 1969     		Vietnam Ceasefire
    23 August to 4 September 1972
    11 to 24 September 1972
    8 to 22 October 1972
    10 to 14 November 1972
    1 to 22 December 1972
    27 December 1972
    1 to 25 January 1973

  • Decommissioned, 30 June 1995
  • Laid up in the Reserve Fleet
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 12 December 1996
  • Title transferred to MARAD, 18 December 1998 for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA.
  • Final Disposition, disposed as targets during RIMPAC 2006, sunk 12 July 2006
    Specifications:
    Displacement 9,286 t.(lt) 15,728 t.(fl)
    Length 511'
    Beam 72'
    Draft 28'
    Speed 20 kts.
    Complement 23 officers, 324 enlisted
    Armament four twin 3"/50 gun mounts
    Propulsion two boilers, steam turbines, single shaft, 16,000shp
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    Mauna Kea 75k Broadside view of Mauna Kea (AE-22) off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 18 September 1957. Mauna Kea was undergoing repairs at Mare Island from 17 August to 11 October 1957.
    Mare Island Naval Shipyard photo # 36704-9-57, 9/18/57.    		 Darryl Baker
    Mauna Kea 24k Mauna Kea (AE-22) underway, date and place unknown. USS Rainier (AE-5) web site
    Mauna Kea 99k Mauna Kea (AE-22) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr.
    Mauna Kea 120k Mauna Kea (AE-22) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, August 1960.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret
    Mauna Kea 99k Mauna Kea (AE-22) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, February 1964.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret
    Mauna Kea 122k Mauna Kea (AE-22) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, December 1964.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret
    Mauna Kea 79k Mauna Kea (AE-22) underway, date and place unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
    Mauna Kea 62k Mauna Kea (AE-22) underway, date and place unknown.
    ©Marine Photos, San Diego, CA.    		 Mike Smolinski
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