USS Haines (APD-84)
USS Haines (DE-792/APD-84), a Buckley-class destroyer escort, was launched by Consolidated Steel Shipbuilding Corp., Orange, Texas, on 26 August 1943. Its construction was sponsored by Mrs. Mary V. Haines, wife of the ship's name sake. The Haines was commissioned on 27 December 1943 with Lieutenant Commander Elmer C. Powell in command.
Haines was named in honor of Lieutenant Richard Alexander Haines, who served aboard the New Orleans (CA-32) when it suffered a devastating torpedo hit in the Battle of Tassafaronga on 30 November 1942. Lieutenant Haines remained at his station to assist in controlling the damage until overcome by asphyxiating gas generated by the explosion. He had given his life to save his shipmates and was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for his heroism.
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“And then we’ll sit
in the shadowy spruce and
pick the bones
of careless mice,
while the long moon drifts
toward Asia”
—John Haines (b. 1924)