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U.S.S. CASCADE
(AD-16)WE SERVE
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The USS CASCADE (AD-16), a Civilian Conversion to a Destroyer Tender, was commissioned on 12 MAR 1943. USS CASCADE served her country for 31 years, 8 months and 10 days, until decommissioned on 22 NOV 1974. Commissioned in the midst of WW II, CASCADE headed west to tended to the war effort against the Japanese. Moving towards Japan in steps, CASCADE finished the war on occupation duty and returned to the US in March 1946. She was decommissioned in 1947 and placed in reserve. CASCADE was recommissioned in 1951 and through 1974 tended the East Coast based destroyer squadrons. She routinely deployed to the Mediterranean and was homeported in Naples, Italy from March 1971 to October 1974. Upon her return to the US, she was decommissioned in November 1974 and then scrapped in 1975-76.
The USS CASCADE (AD-16) deployment history and significant events of her service career follow:
AD-16 Deployments - Major Events
Add a AD-16 Shellback Initiation | Add a AD-16 Deployment - Major Event | ||||
Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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JAN | 1942 | - | JAN | 1944 | Commisioning |
JUN | 1942 | - | Launch Date: 6 JUN 1942 | ||
MAR | 1943 | - | Commissioned: 12 MAR 1943 | ||
NOV | 1943 | - | Shellback Initiation - 19 NOV 1943 - Pacific Ocean | ||
MAR | 1944 | - | Shellback Initiation - 14 MAR 1944 - Pacific Ocean | ||
JUN | 1944 | - | JUL | 1944 | South America |
JUL | 1945 | - | MAR | 1946 | Kamikaze attacks off Okinawa (battle star) |
FEB | 1952 | - | MAR | 1952 | Caribbean |
JAN | 1953 | - | JUL | 1953 | Mediterranean |
SEP | 1953 | - | OCT | 1953 | North Atlantic |
JAN | 1955 | - | MAR | 1955 | Caribbean |
JUN | 1956 | - | DEC | 1956 | Mediterranean |
JUN | 1956 | - | DEC | 1957 | Mediterranean |
JUN | 1956 | - | DEC | 1957 | Mediterranean |
FEB | 1958 | - | AUG | 1958 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1960 | - | JAN | 1961 | Mediterranean |
FEB | 1960 | - | AUG | 1961 | Cuban Missle Blockade |
AUG | 1960 | - | FEB | 1961 | Mediterranean |
MAY | 1961 | - | AUG | 1961 | Cuban Missle Blockade |
MAY | 1961 | - | AUG | 1961 | Cuban Missle Blockade |
JUN | 1962 | - | OCT | 1962 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1964 | - | MAR | 1964 | Caribbean |
APR | 1965 | - | SEP | 1965 | Dry Dock |
JAN | 1966 | - | JAN | 1967 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1966 | - | JAN | 1967 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1966 | - | JAN | 1967 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1966 | - | JAN | 1967 | Mediterranean |
FEB | 1966 | - | APR | 1966 | Recovery of lost H-bomb off coast of Palomares Spain. |
JUN | 1966 | - | JAN | 1967 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1969 | - | JAN | 1969 | Sea Trials |
MAY | 1969 | - | FEB | 1971 | West Pac-Viet Nam |
JAN | 1970 | - | JAN | 1971 | North Atlantic-Med-Indian Ocean |
JUN | 1970 | - | JUL | 1970 | SEA TRIALS AT GTMO |
JUN | 1970 | - | JUL | 1970 | Sea Trials |
JUL | 1970 | - | Shellback Initiation - 7 JUL 1970 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
JUL | 1970 | - | Shellback Initiation - 7 JUL 1970 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
JUL | 1970 | - | Shellback Initiation - 7 JUL 1970 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
JUL | 1970 | - | Shellback Initiation - 7 JUL 1970 - Indian Ocean | ||
JUL | 1970 | - | FEB | 1971 | North Atlantic |
JAN | 1971 | - | JAN | 1973 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean |
MAR | 1971 | - | OCT | 1974 | Homeported in Naples Italy |
JAN | 1972 | - | JAN | 1974 | North Atlantic-Med-Indian Ocean |
SEP | 1973 | - | Shellback Initiation - 20 SEP 1973 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
AUG | 1974 | - | Shellback Initiation - 5 AUG 1974 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
AUG | 1974 | - | Shellback Initiation - 5 AUG 1974 - Atlantic Ocean | ||
NOV | 1974 | - | Decommissioned: 22 NOV 1974 |
AD-16 General Specifications
Complement: 826 Officers and Enlisted
Displacement: 9250 tons
Length: 492 feet
Beam: 69 feet 9 inches
Draft: 27 feet 6 in
Flank Speed: 18 knots
USS CASCADE (AD-16)
Cascade (AD-16) was launched 6 June
1942 by Western Pipe and Steel Co., San Francisco, Calif.; sponsored
by Mrs. C. W. Grosse; and commissioned 12 March 1943, Captain S. B. Ogden
in command.
Cascade cleared San Francisco 12 June
1943 for Pearl Harbor, where she began her war time duty of tending destroyers. As the war moved
westward, Cascade followed, to bring
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.
In June 1945, Cascade sailed to Okinawa, where she
endured the suicide raids and typhoon weather along with the combatants through
September. She served in Wakayama Wan, and
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 12 February
1947.
Recommissioned 5 April 1951, Cascade was based on Newport, R.I., as tender for
the many destroyers home-ported there. From
this port she has cruised to the Caribbean
and the Mediterranean for training and to support destroyers deployed in those
areas. On these cruises Cascade has carried the flags of
Commander, Service Force, 6th Fleet, and Comander, Destroyer Flotilla 6; she has also served as flagship for
Commander, Destroyer Force, Atlantic, on occasion. The tender has carried out these duties through 1963.
Cascade received one battle star for
World War II
service.
[Note: The above USS CASCADE (AD-16) history may, or may not, contain text provided by crew members of the USS CASCADE (AD-16), or by other non-crew members, and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]