1963

1963 Year One Book <--click here to download this book

This book was produced the year after commissioning,

and is not associated directly with the first deployment.

(71 pages)

This book chronicles the Hoel's first year, which starts at the ship's commissioning on 16 June 1962.

But it also includes: photos of the building in Bay City, MI and the transit of the St. Lawrence Seaway

as the Hoel headed to its first drydock at the Boston, MA shipyard to prepare for commissioning.