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AD-16 Cascade

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Alpha - Bravo - Victor
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 at Western Pipe & Steel Co., San Francisco, CA. (date unknown)
  • Launched, 6 June 1942
  • Commissioned USS Cascade (AD-16), 12 March 1943, CAPT. S. B. Ogden in command
  • During World War II Cascade was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and participated in the following campaign:
  • Decommissioned, 12 February 1947
  • Placed in service in reserve at Philadelphia, PA
  • Recommissioned, 5 April 1951
  • 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
  • Cascade earned one battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 9,260 t.
    Length 492'
    Beam 69' 9"
    Draft 27' 6"
    Speed 18 kts.
    Complement 826
    Armament
    two single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
    four 3"/50 dual purpose gun mounts
    two quad 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion system type unknown
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    Cascade 110k 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 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 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 Cascade (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 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 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 Cascade (AD-16) at Mare Island Navy Yard, 25 April 1943.
    Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 3047-43.    		 Darryl Baker
    Cascade 81k Cascade (AD-16) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo.    		 Capt. Jerry Mason, USN
    Cascade 34k Cascade (AD-16) underway, date and place unknown. Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
    Cascade 24k Cascade (AD-16) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo         		.
    Cascade 71k Cascade (AD-16) underway, date and place unknown. Steve Essex
    Cascade 123k Cascade (AD-16) at anchor while tending destroyers, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, May 1955         		Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Cascade 70k Cascade (AD-16) tending destroyers and miscellaneous other types, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, January 1956         		Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Cascade 120k Cascade (AD-16) tending the Sixth Fleets Pompon (SSR-267), Moale (DD-693) and Charles S. Sperry (DD-697), date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, April 1957         		Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Cascade 54k Cascade (AD-16) at Boston Naval Shipyard, May 1960 @copy Richard Leonhardt
    Cascade 107k 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 29k Cascade (AD-16) moored to a breakwater just forward of Midway (CVB-41), location unknown, 7 May 1973 Photo by Larry Bohn
    Denebola 94k Cascade (AD-16), Denebola (AF-56) and the Destroyer Escorts Lester (DE-1022), Hammerberg (DE-1015) and 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 239k Cover of 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
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
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