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AE-29 Mount Hood

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign: November - Whiskey - Zulu - Romeo
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 (2)
Second Row - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (4) - Navy Expeditionary Medal (1-Iran/Indian Ocean, 1-Persian Gulf) - National Defense Service Medal (2)
Third Row - Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (3) - Vietnam Service Medal (1) - Southwest Asia Service Medal
Fourth Row - Humanitarian Service Medal (1-Frequent Wind, 1-Grounding of RPS Datu Kalantiaw) - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal - Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)
Kilauea Class Ammunition Ship:
  • Laid down, 8 May 1967, at Bethlehem Steel Shipyard, Inc, Sparrows Point, MD.
  • Launched, 17 July 1968
  • Commissioned, USS Mount Hood (AE-29), 1 May 1971
  • During the Vietnam War Mount Hood participated in the:
  • Decommissioned, struck from the Naval Register, and title transferred to the Maritime Administration, 10 August 1999
  • Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA., to be sold by MARAD
    Specifications:
    Displacement 11,915 t.(lt) 20,169 t.(fl)
    Length 564'
    Beam 81'
    Draft 29'
    Speed 20 kts.
    Complement 401
    Cargo Capacity 60,000 cu ft/6,000t. ammunition
    Armament four twin 3"/50 gun mounts; Aircraft, two UH-46 Sea Knight helicopters
    Propulsion three Foster-Wheeler 600psi boilers, one steam turbine, single six blade fixed propeller, 22,000hp
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    Mount Hood 98k Mount Hood (AE-29) moored pierside, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "NAVSEA Journal."    		 Bob Bush
    Mount Hood 110k Mount Hood (AE-29) underway, date and place unknown.
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    Mount Hood 51k Mount Hood (AE-29) underway, date and place unknown.
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    Mount Hood 72k Mount Hood (AE-29) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, November 1971    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Mount Hood 73k Mount Hood (AE-29) underway, aerial port beam view, September 1981, while en route to Cayalan Island, Philippines, the location of the capsized Philippine destroyer escort ship RPS Datu Kalantiaw,(PS-76) which had been overtaken by Typhoon Clara.
    Photo from the Department of Defense Visual Imaging web site    		 Fred Weiss
    Mount Hood 83k Mount Hood (AE-29) anchored off Cayalan Island, Philippines, 22 September 1981. Mount Hood participated in search and rescue (SAR) operations for the beached and overturned frigate RPS Datu Kalantiaw (PS-76).
    Photo from the Department of Defense Visual Imaging web site    		 Fred Weiss
    Mount Hood 49k Mount Hood (AE-29) underway, port beam view, 13 July 1987. A CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter is taking off from her helicopter pad.
    Photo from the Department of Defense Visual Imaging web site    		 Fred Weiss
    Mount Hood 132k Mount Hood (AE-29) underway, date and place unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
    Mount Hood 41k Mount Hood (AE-29) entering San Francisco Bay after passing under the Golden Gate Bridge, date unknown.
    ©Marine Photos, San Diego, CA.    		 Mike Smolinski
    Mount Hood 79k Mount Hood (AE-29) heads out of San Diego Bay, 30 September 1997 for an at sea period in the Eastern Pacific.
    US Navy photo # 970930-N-0000U-022.    		 Bill Gonyo
    Mount Hood 98k Mount Hood (AE-29) and John C. Stennis (CVN-74) underway off Johnson Atoll, 14 August 1998, while John C. Stennis was offloading ammunitions onto Mount Hood. The aircraft carrier was returning to her new homeport in San Diego, CA., finalizing her 1998 around-the-world cruise.
    US Navy photo # 980814-N-6932B-001 by PH3 Jason Brunson.    		 Bill Gonyo
    Mount Hood 71k Mount Hood (AE-29) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr
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