USS Cascade (AD-16)
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| Name: | USS Cascade |
| Builder: | Western Pipe and Steel Company, San Francisco, California |
| Launched: | 6 June 1942 |
| Commissioned: | 12 March 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 12 February 1947 |
| Recommissioned: | 5 April 1951 |
| Decommissioned: | 22 November 1974 |
| Struck: | 23 November 1974 |
| Motto: | "We Serve" |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping, 1 October 1975 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Destroyer tender |
| Displacement: | 9,250 long tons (9,398 t) |
| Length: | 492 ft (150 m) |
| Beam: | 69 ft 9 in (21.26 m) |
| Draft: | 27 ft 6 in (8.38 m) |
| Speed: | 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph) |
| Complement: | 826 |
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USS Cascade (AD-16), the only ship of its class, was a destroyer tender in the United States Navy.
Originally designed as a passenger-freighter, the Cascade was launched on 6 June 1942 by Western Pipe and Steel Company in San Francisco, California. The ship was sponsored by Mrs. Charles W. Crosse, wife of Rear Admiral Charles W. Crosse, USN. It was turned over to the Matson Navigation Company of San Francisco, California, for outfitting in October 1942. The Cascade was commissioned on 12 March 1943, Captain S. B. Ogden in command.
Cascade cleared San Francisco on 12 June 1943 for Pearl Harbor, where she began her war time duty of tending destroyers. As the war moved westward, Cascade followed, bringing her support close to the action areas. From November 1943, she was stationed successively at Kwajalein, Eniwetok, and Ulithi, while the ships she served ranged the Pacific, escorting convoys, screening carrier task forces, supporting invasions, and carrying out many other tasks with typical destroyer versatility. Cascade was part of Service Squadron 10.
In June 1945, Cascade sailed to Okinawa, where she endured the suicide raids and typhoon weather. She left Okinawan waters in September to serve in Wakayama, Japan and later at Tokyo, Japan, supporting the occupation until March 1946, when she sailed for the East Coast. Cascade was decommissioned and placed in service in reserve at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 12 February 1947.
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