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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
  • Acquired by the US Navy, 9 November 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
  • USS Cascade earned one battle star for World War II service
  • Permanent custody transfer to the Maritime Administration (MARAD), 9 February 1975
  • Final Disposition, sold for scrapping by the Defense Reutilization Marketing Service, 9 February 1975, to Luria Bros.
    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
    Fuel Capacity
    NSFO 17,360 Bbls
    Propulsion
    one General Electric turbine
    two Foster & Wheeler D-type boilers 460psi, 765°
    double Westinghouse Main Reduction Gear
    three 100Kw 450V. A. C. Ship's Service Generators
    single propeller, 8,500shp
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    Cascade 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
    Cascade 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
    Cascade 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
    Cascade 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
    Cascade 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
    Cascade
    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
    Cascade
    19-N-45519    		 97k
    Cascade 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
    Cascade 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
    Cascade
    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.
    Cascade
    19-N-45524    		 85k
    Cascade 159k USS Cascade (AD-16), sometime after her 1943 yard period when her cranes were replaced with booms.
    US Navy photo.         		David Wright
    Cascade
    09031636    		 167k USS Cascade (AD-16) at anchor at Wakayama, Japan, 17 September 1945. Photo taken from USS Putnam (DD-757) as she was approaching Cascade.
    From the George Hansen USS Putnam photos set.         		Eric Hansen and John Chiquoine
    Cascade 106k 1943 Ship's service ticket stubs from USS Cascade (AD-16), saved for sixty years by USS Harrison (DD-573) Radioman Fred Schneider. From a long-forgotten parts mission to the tender. John Chiquoine
    Cascade 71k USS Cascade (AD-16) underway, date and location unknown. Steve Essex
    Cascade 123k USS Cascade (AD-16) at anchor with, from left to right: USS Charles P. Cecil (DD-835), USS Daly (DD-519), and USS Cotten (DD-669) alongside, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, May 1955    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Cascade 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.
    Cascade 1861k USS Cascade (AD-16) with USS Charles S. Sperry (DD-697), USS Moale (DD-693) and USS Pompon (SSR-267) along side. Ships in the background in include left to right: USS Randolph (CVA-15), USS Waccamaw (AO-109), USS Mississinewa (AO-144) and two unidentified auxiliaries, an AO and possibly an AKA. At anchor in the Mediterranean, 12 September 1956.
    US Navy photo # 699217 now in the collections of the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum.    		 Darryl Baker
    Cascade 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.
    Cascade 102k USS Cascade (AD-16) at anchor, 13 May 1957, location unknown.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # USN 1017141         		Robert Hurst
    Cascade 54k USS Cascade (AD-16) at Boston Naval Shipyard, May 1960 @copy Richard Leonhardt
    Cascade 89k USS Cascade (AD-16) under way 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.
    Cascade 98k USS Cascade (AD-16) at anchor, circa 1963. Note her boats alongside.
    Photo courtesy Captain Aldo Fraccaroli.    		 Robert Hurst
    Cascade 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.
    Cascade 154k USS Cascade (AD-16) under way, 15 March 1968, off Quonset Point, R.I.
    US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # K-45705, courtesy Shipscribe.com    		 Robert Hurst
    Cascade 81k USS Cascade (AD-16) under way off Newport, R.I., date unknown. Mike Smolinski
    Cascade 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
    Cascade 1753k USS Cascade (AD-16) moored at Naval Station Newport R.I. with, from inboard to outboard; USS Dealey (DE-1006), USS Joseph K. Taussig (DE-1030), and USS McCloy (DE-1038) alongside, 25 July 1970 Photo ©Richard Leonhardt
    Cascade 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, courtesy Shipscribe.com.    		 Robert Hurst
    Denebola 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
    Cascade 268k From left to right USS Sylvania (AFS-2), USS Cascade (AD-16), USS Denebola (AF-56) moored at Naples, Italy, March 1971 Photo by Dave Truby
    Cascade 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
    Cascade
    09031637    		 429k USS Cascade (AD-16) moored at Athens (Elefsis) late May early June 1973, with USS Josephus Daniels (DLG-27) and USS Mitscher (DDG-35) alongside. Josephus Daniels left in July 1973 and Mitscher outchopped the Med, 21 June 1973. Carl Kracht USS Vreeland (DE-1068)
    Cascade
    09031638    		 409k
    Cascade 133k USS Cascade (AD-16) under way off Newport, Rhode Island, date unknown.
    US Navy photo.         		Mike Smolinski
    Cascade 33k USS Cascade (AD-16) at anchor, date and location unknown. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
    Cascade 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

    For more photos and information about USS Cascade, see:
  • Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
  • USS Cascade (AD-16) War Diary
  • MARAD Vessel History Database
  • Postal Covers related to the ship
    • Commanding Officers
    01CAPT. Ogden, Samuel Burr, USN12 March 1943 - 10 May 1944
    02CAPT. Gates, Herbert Kenneth10 May 1944 - 24 December 1945
    03CAPT. Young, Louis Thomason, USN24 December 1945 - 12 February 1947
      Decommissioned12 February 1947 - 5 April 1951
    04CAPT. Stallings, George Bennett Haywood :RADM5 April 1951 - 19 May 1952
    05CAPT. McGregor, Robert Roy, USN (USNA 1929)19 May 1952 - July 1953
    06CAPT. Canty, Joseph Patrick :RADMJuly 1953 - August 1954
    07CAPT. Olsen, Robert Irving, USN (USNA 1933)August 1954 - January 1956
    08CAPT. Robertson, Edward Livingston, USN (USNA 1931)January 1956 - January 1957
    09CAPT. Molumphy, George Garvie, USN (USNA 1931)January 1957 - December 1957
    10CAPT. Conwell, Lester Cameron, USN (USNA 1933)December 1957 - November 1959
    11CAPT. White Jr., Frederic Hall, USNNovember 1959 - 4 November 1960
    12CAPT. Morrison Jr., Charles Henry, USN (USNA 1938)4 November 1960 - 2 October 1961
    13CAPT. Curran Jr., James Henry, USN2 October 1961 - November 1962
    14CAPT. Eddy, Thomas RoderickNovember 1962 - December 1962
    15CDR. Schwartze, George McNemer, USN (Acting)December 1962 - February 1963
    16CAPT. Guy, Robert Stephen, USNFebruary 1963 - June 1964
    17CAPT. Moriarty, Thomas John, USNJune 1964 - July 1965
    18CAPT. Worthing, Lewis KendallJuly 1965 - March 1966
    19CAPT. Birdt, GeorgeMarch 1966 - September 1967
    20CAPT. Linville, James Calder, USNSeptember 1967 - January 1969
    21CAPT. Tisdale, Robert StreetJanuary 1969 - September 1970
    22CAPT. Schniedwind, Robert FrancisSeptember 1970 - 15 July 1972
    23CAPT. McCreight III, Major Israel15 July 1972 - 27 August 1974
    24LCDR. Beaton, J. Hudson27 August 1974 - 22 November 1974
    Courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves, Photos Courtesy Bill Gonyo
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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