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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

Left patch contributed by Mike Smolinski

USS Haleakala (AE-25)

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Delta - Sierra - Lima NDSL

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Unit Commendation - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation - National Defense Service Medal (2)
Second Row - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (1-Op. Frequent Wind) - Vietnam Service Medal (13) - Southwest Asia Service Medal
Third Row - Humanitarian Service Medal (1-Frequent Wind) - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal - Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)

Nitro Class Ammunition Ship:

Laid down, date unknown, at Bethlehem Steel Shipyard, Inc, Sparrows Point, MD.

Launched, 17 February 1959

Commissioned, USS Haleakala (AE-25), 3 November 1959, CAPT. Miles P. Refo, III, USN in command

During the Vietnam War USS Haleakala participated in the following campaigns:

**Vietnam War Campaigns**
Campaign and Dates	Campaign and Dates
Vietnam Defense 20 to 24 December 1965	Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969 15 to 31 July 1969 23 August to 1 September 1969
Vietnamese Counteroffensive 25 to 30 December 1965 7 to 19 and 29 to 30 January 1966 6 to 16 February 1966 27 February to 8 March 1966 17 to 24 and 26 to 27 March 1966 7 to 16 April 1966 11 to 22 May 1966 3 to 18 June 1966	Vietnam Winter-Spring 1970 9 November to 2 December 1969 13 to 24 December 1969 29 December 1969 to 1 January 1970 8 to 17 January 1970
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase II 9 to 21 July 1966 6 to 12 August 1966 11 to 29 April 1967 12 to 31 May 1967	Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VII 13 to 27 November 1970 6 to 18 and 28 December 1970
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase III 16 June to 1 July 1967 14 July to 4 August 1967 24 August to 10 September 1967 1 to 14 October 1967	Consolidation I 25 to 30 November 1971
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase IV 22 May to 3 June 1968 11 to 21 and 29 to 30 June 1968	Consolidation II 1 to 3, 9 to 16 and 29 to 31 December 1971 10 to 13 and 19 to 30 January 1972 17 February to 2 March 1972 9 to 22 March 1972
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase V 1 to 21 July 1968 26 July to 7 August 1968 20 August to 3 September 1968 13 to 22 September 1968 30 September to 8 October 1968 16 to 24 October 1968 31 October to 1 November 1968	Vietnam Ceasefire 2 to 4, 13 to 18 and 25 to 29 April 1972 6 to 27 May 1972 7 to 22 June 1972 2 to 11 and 20 to 29 July 1972 6 to 13 August 1972
Vietnamese Counteroffensive - Phase VI 2 to 4 November 1968	.

Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register, 10 December 1993

Disposed of via title transfer to MARAD, 24 March 1994 for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet;

Final Disposition, scrapped in 1994

USS Haleakala earned 13 campaign stars for Vietnam War service

Specifications:
Displacement 9,050 t.(lt) 15,688 t.(fl)
Length 512'
Beam 72'
Draft 27'
Speed 19 kts.
Complement 28 officers, 331 enlisted
Armament four twin 3"/50 gun mounts
Propulsion steam turbine, single shaft, 16.000shp

Size	Image Description	Contributed By /Source
354k	*USS Haleakala* (AE-25)** underway shortly before entering Todd Shipyards, Corp., Seattle, WA. yard for "FAST automatic transfer" modification, 28 February 1964. US Navy photo	CDR. Louis D. Chirillo USN Ret
104k	*USS Haleakala* (AE-25) and USS Leonard F. Mason (DD-852)** underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, February 1964.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
30k	*US Haleakala* (AE-25) and USS Virgo (AE-30)** steaming together in the late 1960s, location unknown.	Bill Toohey ETC USN Ret USS Haleakala Feb 66 - Nov 68.
15k	*USS Haleakala* (AE-25)** underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo	"AE" Association web site
227k	*USS Haleakala* (AE-25) rearming USS Intrepid (CVS-11)** in the South China Sea, circa March-April 1966. US Navy photo	Bill Toohey ETC USN Ret USS Haleakala Feb 66-Nov 68.
100k	*USS Haleakala* (AE-25)** moored at WepSta Cubi Point, Philippines, circa June-July 1967. US Navy photo	Bill Toohey ETC USN Ret USS Haleakala Feb 66 - Nov 68.
118k	*USS Haleakala* (AE-25) rearming USS Henry W. Tucker (DD-875) left, and USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14)** right, off the coast of Vietnam, circa January-March 1966. US Navy photo	Bill Toohey ETC USN Ret USS Haleakala Feb 66 - Nov 68.
154k	*USS Haleakala* (AE-25)** resupplying a Coast Guard cutter off the coast of Vietnam, date unknown. US Navy photo	Bill Toohey ETC USN Ret USS Haleakala Feb 66 - Nov 68.
371k	*USS Haleakala* (AE-25)** underway, 29 April 1968, location unknown. DVIC photo # DN-SC-86-00175 by PH2 T.F. O`Sullivan, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the Defense Visual Information Center.	Bill Gonyo
23k	*USS Haleakala* (AE-25)** anchored at US Naval Weapons Station, Subic Bay, P.I., 1976.	Joe Connell
62k	*USS Haleakala* (AE-25) in a shipyard at San Francisco, CA., September 1978. In the drydock in the background is ex-USS Goodhue (APA-107)** in commercial service as the Matson Lines SS Hawaiian Citizen.	Photo by Gerhard Mueller-Debus
54k	*USS Haleakala* (AE-25)** moored to a buoy at Hong Kong, 1992.	William Chiu
62k	*USS Haleakala* (AE-25)** moored to a buoy at Hong Kong, 1992.	William Chiu
59k	*USS Haleakala* (AE-25)** underway, date and location unknown. ©Marine Photos, San Diego, CA.	Mike Smolinski
757k	*USS Haleakala* (AE-25)** underway, date and location unknown. ©Marine Photos, San Diego, CA.	Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr.
59k	*USS Haleakala* (AE-25)** Master-at-Arms badge.	Jack Treutle