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USS Dixie (AD-1)
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 USS Dixie (Destroyer Tender) (1909 - 1920)
 USS Dixie (Transport) (1899 - 1909)
 USS Dixie (Auxiliary Cruiser) (1898 - 1899)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Expeditionary Medal - Spanish Campaign Medal - Cuban Pacification Medal
Bottom Row - Mexican Service Medal - Dominican Campaign Medal - World War I Victory Medal (with Mobile Base Clasp)
Dixie Class Destroyer Tender:
  • Laid down as the screw steamer, SS El Rio in 1893 at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News VA.
  • Purchased by the US Navy, 15 April 1898
  • Converted at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock to an Auxiliary Cruiser
  • Commissioned USS Dixie, 19 April 1898, CDR. C. H. Davis in command
  • Decommissioned, 7 March 1899, at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Recommissioned, 15 November 1899, as a Transport
  • Decommissioned, 21 July 1902, at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Recommissioned, 1 October 1903
  • Decommissioned, 23 October 1905, at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Recommissioned, 2 June 1906
  • Decommissioned, 2 November 1907
  • Recommissioned, 2 February 1909, as a Destroyer Tender
  • Designated (AD-1), 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned, 30 June 1922
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Final Disposition sold for scrapping 25 September 1922
    Specifications:
    Displacement 6,114 t.
    Length 405'
    Beam 48' 3"
    Draft 19' 11"
    Speed 14 kts.
    Complement 224
    Armament ten 3" gun mounts (as Auxiliary Cruiser)
    Propulsion coal fired boilers
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    Dixie 88k Auxiliary Cruiser USS Dixie, circa 1898, during Spanish-American War
    US Navy photo # NH 67435, from the collection of the US Naval Historical Center     		US Naval Historical Center
    Dixie 47k USS Dixie moored, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 .
    Dixie 43k USS Dixie in the Azores while enroute to the US after completing her tour of duty during World War I at Queenstown, Ireland, circa January-February 1919. Note: She is flying a "Homeward Bound" pennant.
    © Marine Photos, San Diego, CA.    		 Mike Smolinski
    Dixie 51k USS Dixie at anchor, date and location unknown. Photo from "Jane's Fighting Ships 1914." Robert Hurst
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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