USS Shasta (AE-33)

	USS Shasta in 1974
History
United States
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	26 February 1972
Decommissioned	1 October 1997
In service	with Military Sealift Command 1 October 1997
Out of service	7 April 2011, Pearl Harbor
Homeport	Naval Weapons Station, Concord, California
Identification	MMSI number: 338901000; Callsign: NRNC;
Motto	"We serve anytime, anywhere;" "It has to be Shasta;" "Max Flex"
Fate	Scrapped, Brownsville, Texas, 2013–2014
General characteristics
Class and type	Kilauea-class ammunition ship
Displacement	10,417 long tons (10,584 t) light; 18,088 long tons (18,378 t) full load;
Length	564 ft (172 m)
Beam	81 ft (25 m)
Draft	27 ft (8.2 m)
Installed power	22,000 shp (16,405 kW)
Propulsion	3 × Foster-Wheeler water tube boilers; 1 × General Electric geared steam turbine; 1 × shaft with six-blade fixed-pitch propeller;
Speed	23 knots (43 km/h)
Complement	28 officers(with air detachment; 20 without); 375 enlisted (with air detachment; 350 without);
Armament	2 × 3"/50 caliber twin mounts; 12 × 0.5 in (12.7 mm) guns; 2 × Phalanx CIWS; AN/SLQ-25 Nixie; Chaff;
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"). Over three decades, Shasta and her crew took part in the Vietnam War, the Cold War, the Iran–Iraq War, Desert Shield/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),^[2] 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.

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^ "CONREP Standard Tensioned Replenishment Alongside Method (STREAM)". globalsecurity.org. 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2015.

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History
USS Shasta in 1974
United States
Name	USS Shasta (AE-33)
Namesake	Mount Shasta
Awarded	8 March 1968^[1]
Builder	Ingalls Shipbuilding^[1]
Laid down	10 November 1969^[1]
Launched	3 April 1971^[1]
Sponsored by	Mrs. Ralph W. Cousins
Commissioned	26 February 1972^[1]
Decommissioned	1 October 1997^[1]
In service	with Military Sealift Command 1 October 1997
Out of service	7 April 2011,^[1] Pearl Harbor
Homeport	Naval Weapons Station, Concord, California
Identification	MMSI number: 338901000 Callsign: NRNC
Motto	"We serve anytime, anywhere;" "It has to be Shasta;" "Max Flex"
Fate	Scrapped, Brownsville, Texas, 2013–2014
General characteristics
Class and type	Kilauea-class ammunition ship
Displacement	10,417 long tons (10,584 t) light 18,088 long tons (18,378 t) full load
Length	564 ft (172 m)
Beam	81 ft (25 m)
Draft	27 ft (8.2 m)
Installed power	22,000 shp (16,405 kW)
Propulsion	3 × Foster-Wheeler water tube boilers 1 × General Electric geared steam turbine 1 × shaft with six-blade fixed-pitch propeller
Speed	23 knots (43 km/h)
Complement	28 officers(with air detachment; 20 without) 375 enlisted (with air detachment; 350 without)
Armament	2 × 3"/50 caliber twin mounts 12 × 0.5 in (12.7 mm) guns 2 × Phalanx CIWS AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Chaff
Aircraft carried	2 × CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters