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USS Cascade (AD-16)

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Career

Ordered:
Laid down:
Launched:	6 June 1942
Commissioned:	12 March 1943 5 April 1951
Decommissioned:	12 February 1947 22 November 1974
Struck:	23 November 1974
Fate:	Sold for scrapping 1 October 1975
General characteristics
Displacement:	9,260 tons
Length:	492 ft
Beam:	69 ft 9 in
Draft:	27 ft 6 in
Propulsion:
Speed:	18 knots
Range:
Complement:	826
Armament:	2 × 5 in./38 guns (12.7 cm) 16 x 1.1 in. (28 mm) AA guns (4x4) 12 × 20mm AA (12x1)
Motto:	"We Serve"

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 of 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, 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, Pennsylvania, on 12 February 1947. Recommissioned on 5 April 1951, Cascade was based in Newport, Rhode Island, 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 Commander, Destroyer Flotilla 6; she has also served as flagship for Commander, Destroyer Force, Atlantic, on occasion. The tender carried out these duties through 1963. The Cascade was decommissioned on 22 November 1974 and struck from the Naval Register on 23 November 1974. She was subsequently sold for scrap to Luria Brother of Brooklyn, New York, and dismantled at the Gulmar Yard in Brownsville, Texas starting September 1975. Cascade received one battle star for World War II service.