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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
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal
Third Row - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia/Europe clasp) - National Defense Service Medal (2) - Sea Service Deployment Ribbon

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, 2 to 30 June 1945

USS Cascade was assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 2 September 1945 to 27 March 1946

Decommissioned, 12 February 1947

Placed in service in reserve at Philadelphia, PA

Recommissioned, 5 April 1951, CAPT. George B. H. Stallings, in command

USS Cascade was assigned to Occupation service in Europe from 21 February to 10 June 1953

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

four single 5"/38 cal 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

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
	110k	*USS Cascade* (AD-16) during inclining experiments in a dry dock at Hunters Point Navy Yard, San Francisco, 14 March 1943. The transport to the left off Cascade** is unidentified. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 1793-43, 3/14/43.	Darryl Baker
	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
	101k	Stern view *USS Cascade* (AD-16)** near Navy Yard Mare Island, 26 March 1943. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 2074-43, 3/26/43.	Darryl Baker
	96k	Broadside view *USS Cascade* (AD-16)** near Navy Yard Mare Island, 26 March 1943. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 2076-43, 3/26/43.	Darryl Baker
	106k	Bow on view *USS Cascade* (AD-16)** near Navy Yard Mare Island, 26 March 1943. Unidentified tug alongside. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 2078-43, 3/26/43.	Darryl Baker
19-N-45521	87k	*USS Cascade* (AD-16)** off Navy Yard Mare Island, 27 March 1943. US National Archives, RG-19-LCM, photo # 19-N-45521 and 19-N-45519, US Navy Bureau of Ships photos now in the collections of the US National Archives	Robert Hurst
19-N-45519	97k		Robert Hurst
	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
	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
19-N-45526	81k	*USS Cascade* (AD-16)** off Navy Yard Mare Island, 28 April 1943, after reduction of topside weight. Two 5"/38 guns have been removed and the heavy cranes have been replaced with booms. US National Archives, RG-19-LCM, photo # 19-N-45526 and 19-N-45524, US Navy Bureau of Ships photos now in the collections of the US National Archives	Robert Hurst and CAPT. Jerry Mason USN Ret.
19-N-45524	85k		Robert Hurst and CAPT. Jerry Mason USN Ret.
	71k	*USS Cascade* (AD-16)** underway, date and location unknown.	Steve Essex
	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.
	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.
	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.
	102k	*USS Cascade* (AD-16)** at anchor, 13 May 1957, location unknown. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # USN 1017141	Robert Hurst
	54k	*USS Cascade* (AD-16)** at Boston Naval Shipyard, May 1960	@copy Richard Leonhardt
	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.
	98k	*USS Cascade* (AD-16)** at anchor, circa 1963. Note her boats alongside. Photo courtesy Captain Aldo Fraccaroli.	Robert Hurst
	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.
	154k	*USS Cascade* (AD-16)** underway, 15 March 1968, off Quonsett Point, R.I. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # K-45705	Robert Hurst
	88k	*USS Cascade* (AD-16) moored in her berth at Naval Station Newport, R.I. in 1968. with USS Brumby (DE-1044) alongside. Photo taken from the fantail of USS Lloyd Thomas (DD-764)** by John A Pisanelli	John A Pisanelli USS Lloyd Thomas
	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
	146k	*USS Cascade* (AD-16)** at anchor, 15 March 1968, 17 August 1971, in the Mediterranean Sea. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # K-91016	Robert Hurst
	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
	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
	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