USS Shasta (AE-6)
USS ''Shasta'' (AE-6), an ammunition ship, was laid down under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 125) on 12 August 1940 by the Tampa Shipbuilding Company, Tampa, Fla., initially as a C2 type cargo ship. She was acquired by the Navy on 16 April 1941 and launched on 9 July 1941, sponsored by Mrs. Spessard L. Holland. She was commissioned on 20 January 1942. She was named after Mount Shasta, a volcano in the Cascade Range in northern California, USA. Wartime voyages On 19 November 1942, ''Shasta'' departed Alameda, Calif., for Noumea, New Caledonia, on the first of her ten wartime transpacific voyages. At the western end of each voyage, she moved from island to island replenishing the ammunition supplies of the Battle Fleet. With one exception, a deployment to Adak Island, Adak, Alaska, in support of the Attu Island, Attu and Kiska operations, ''Shasta's'' activities centered around the campaigns in the western Pacific. Her cargo supported the campaigns against the Gilberts, th ...
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USS Shasta (AE-6) Underway C1969
USS ''Shasta'' refers to two ammunition ships of the U.S. Navy: * , commissioned in 1942 and decommissioned in 1969 * , later USNS ''Shasta'' (T-AE-33), commissioned in 1972, decommissioned in 1997 and transferred to the Military Sealift Command {{DEFAULTSORT:Shasta United States Navy ship names ...
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