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USS Cascade (AD-16)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Alpha - Bravo - Victor
NABV
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Unit Commendation - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1)
Bottom Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal (2)


Cascade Class Destroyer Tender:
  • Laid down, date unknown, as a Maritime Commission hull type (C3-S-A2) under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 172) at Western Pipe & Steel Co., San Francisco, CA.
  • Launched, 6 June 1942
  • Commissioned USS Cascade (AD-16), 12 March 1943, CAPT. Samuel B. Ogden in command
  • During World War II USS Cascade was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaign:
    Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
    Campaign and Dates
    Okinawa Gunto operation
    Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, June to August 1945
  • Decommissioned, 12 February 1947
  • Placed in service in reserve at Philadelphia, PA
  • Recommissioned, 5 April 1951, CAPT. George B. H. Stallings, in command
  • Decommissioned, 22 November 1974
  • Struck from the Naval Register 23 November 1974
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service, 1 October 1975
  • USS Cascade earned one battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 9,260 t.(lt) 16,900 t.(lim)
    Length 492'
    Beam 69' 9"
    Draft 27' 6"
    Speed 18.4 kts.
    Complement
    officers 62'
    enlisted 795
    Largest boom capacity30 t.
    Armament
    two single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    three twin 40mm AA gun mounts
    two quad 20mm AA gun mounts
    Ship's Service Generators three 100Kw 450V. A.C.
    Fuel Capacity
    NFSO
    Propulsion
    one General Electric turbine
    two Foster & Wheeler D-type boilers 460psi, 765°
    double Westinghouse Main Reduction Gear
    single propeller, 8,500shp
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    Cascade 110k USS Cascade (AD-16) during inclining experiments in a dry dock at Hunters Point Navy Yard, San Francisco, 14 March 1943. The transport on the right off Cascade is unidentified.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 1793-43, 3/14/43.
    Darryl Baker
    Cascade 177k Amidships looking aft plan view of USS Cascade (AD-16) while docked in San Francisco. 14 March 1943.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 1803-43, 3/14/43.
    Darryl Baker
    Cascade 101k Stern view USS Cascade (AD-16) upon arrival at Navy Yard Mare Island, 26 March 1943.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 2074-43, 3/26/43.
    Darryl Baker
    Cascade 96k Broadside view USS (AD-16) upon arrival at Navy Yard Mare Island, 26 March 1943.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 2076-43, 3/26/43.
    Darryl Baker
    Cascade 106k Bow on view USS Cascade (AD-16) upon arrival at Navy Yard Mare Island, 26 March 1943. Unidentified tug alongside.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 2078-43, 3/26/43.
    Darryl Baker
    Cascade 121k Forward plan view of USS Cascade (AD-16) at Mare Island Navy Yard, 25 April 1943. Cascade was in overhaul at Mare Island from 26 March until 27 April 1943.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 3046-43.
    Darryl Baker
    Cascade 131k Aft plan view of USS Cascade (AD-16) at Mare Island Navy Yard, 25 April 1943.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 3047-43.
    Darryl Baker
    Cascade 81k USS Cascade (AD-16) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo.
    Capt. Jerry Mason, USN
    Cascade 34k USS Cascade (AD-16) underway, date and location unknown. Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
    Cascade 24k USS Cascade (AD-16) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo
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    Cascade 71k USS Cascade (AD-16) underway, date and location unknown. Steve Essex
    Cascade 123k USS Cascade (AD-16) at anchor while tending destroyers, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, May 1955
    Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Cascade 70k USS Cascade (AD-16) tending destroyers and miscellaneous other types, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, January 1956
    Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Cascade 120k USS Cascade (AD-16) tending the Sixth Fleets USS Pompon (SSR-267), USS Moale (DD-693) and USS Charles S. Sperry (DD-697), date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, April 1957
    Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Cascade 54k USS Cascade (AD-16) at Boston Naval Shipyard, May 1960 @copy Richard Leonhardt
    Cascade 89k USS Cascade (AD-16) underway in Boston Harbor, in March 1962, near the end of a three month overhaul at the Boston Naval Shipyard.
    Boston Naval Shipyard photo 2566, Boston National Historical Park Collection, NPS Cat. No. BOSTS-10637
    Stephen P. Carlson, Preservation Specialist, Boston NHP, Charlestown Navy Yard. Boston, MA.
    Cascade 107k USS Cascade (AD-16) at anchor while tending minesweepers, possibly at Palomares Spain, date unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, September 1966.
    Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Cascade 1753k USS Cascade (AD-16) moored at Naval Station Newport R.I. with, from inboard to outboard; USS Dealy (DE-1006), USS Joseph K. Taussig (DE-1030), and USS McCloy (DE-1038) alongside, 25 July 1970 Photo ©Richard Leonhardt
    Denebola 94k USS Cascade (AD-16), USS Denebola (AF-56) and the Destroyer Escorts USS Lester (DE-1022), USS Hammerberg (DE-1015) and USS Courtney (DE-1021) moored at Naples, Italy, 13 March 1971
    Photo by PHC B.M. Anderson.
    US Navy photo # K 88830 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center
    US Naval Historical Center
    Cascade 29k USS Cascade (AD-16) moored to a breakwater just forward of USS Midway (CVA-41), location unknown, 7 May 1973 Photo by Larry Bohn
    Cascade 239k Cover of USS Cascade (AD-16) Change of Command Ceremony, 27 August 1974 at Norfolk, VA. - LCDR. J. Hudson Beaton USN relieved Capt. M.I. McCreight, III USN. Stephen J. Essex


    For more photos and information about USS Cascade, see:

    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Fleet Reserve Association

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