Lassen Class

USS Lassen (AE-3)

Ex Shooting Star, launched January 1st, 1940

Stricken Ist July, 1969.

Recipient of three Battle Stars during WWII

Entire career spent in the Pacific

More information about Mount Lassen Volcano can be had at the Cascade Volcano Observatory site.

Cover from Original Kilauea (AE-4)

Which started life as SS Surprise when acquired by Navy 14th November, 1940.

Later renamed Mt. Baker

Postcard of USS Mount Baker (AE-4)

After recommissioning in 1951

USS Rainier (AE-5)

Commissioned in 1941, active in Coral Sea and Midway

Decommissioned 1946

Recommissioned 1951 to serve in Korean Conflict

Present at Gulf of Tonkin in 1964

Decommissioned again in 1970 after last tour of Vietnam

Recipient of 4 Battle Stars from Korean Conflict, 8 from off Vietnam

Named after volcano which was itself named after British Admiral Peter Rainier, Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies from 1794 to 1804.

Rainier died in 1807 with title "Admiral of the Blue" without stepping foot on N. America

More information about Mt. Rainier Volcano can be obtained at the Cascade Volcano Observatory site.

USS Shasta (AE-6)

For details of the volcano go to the Cascades Volcano Observatory site.

USS Mauna Loa (AE-8)

An ammunition ship of the "Lassen Class"

Launched 14th April 1943, Commissioned 27th October 1943

More information about Mauna Loa Volcano can be obtained at the HVO site

For something completely different, a letter to a member of the USS Mauna Loa. Mailed from Grey Lynn, New Zealand sometime during WW2.

USS Mazama (AE-9)

For more information about the volcano go to Cascades Volcano Observatory site.

USS Akutan (AE-13)

For details of the volcano go to the Alaska Volcano Observatory site

 

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