USS Dixie (AD-14)

USS Dixie (AD-14) in 1976
History
Launched:	27 May 1939
Commissioned:	25 April 1940
Decommissioned:	15 June 1982
Struck:	15 June 1982
Honors and awards:	5 battle stars for Korean War service
Fate:	sold for scrapping
General characteristics
Displacement:	9,450 tons
Length:	530 ft 6 in (161.70 m)
Beam:	73 ft 3 in (22.33 m)
Draught:	24 ft 5 in (7.44 m)
Propulsion:	Steam
Speed:	18 kts
Complement:	1262
Armament:	4 x 5 in (130 mm)/38 cal

The second USS Dixie (AD-14) was a destroyer tender in the United States Navy.

Dixie was launched on 27 May 1939 by New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, New Jersey, sponsored by Mrs. A. C. Pickens; and commissioned on 25 April 1940, with Lieutenant Commander G. H. Bahm in command.

Dixie sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, on 20 June 1940 for Pearl Harbor to serve the destroyers of the Battle Force until October, when she cleared for the West Coast and similar operations at San Diego, California. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, she was undergoing at Mare Island Navy Yard, and quickly took up the task of readying ships for war service. In March 1942 she returned to Pearl Harbor to tend destroyers and other ships of the Fleet until November.

Dixie alternated between Nouméa and Espiritu Santo in support of the operations in the Solomons from November 1942 to March 1944, then went to the Solomons where she was based at Hathorn Sound. In September she arrived at the huge fleet base at Ulithi, serving there until February 1945. Her essential services were next given at San Pedro Bay, Leyte, where Dixie remained until the end of the war. She served ships on occupation duty at Okinawa and Shanghai, then returned to the west coast in December 1945.