Category: USS Cascade (AD-16), United States Navy

Categories: United States Navy Ships | United States Navy Ships, World War I

This category contains profiles of those who served aboard the USS Cascade (AD-16)

• Commissioned: 12 March 1943
• Decommissioned: 12 February 1947
• Recommissioned: 5 April 1951
• Decommissioned: 22 November 1974
• Status: Sold for scrapping, 1 October 1975

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 received one battle star for World War II service.

See:

• USS Cascade at Wikipedia
• USS Cascade NavSource Photo Archive
• USS Cascade Naval History & Heritage Command - Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

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