USS Cascade (AD 16)

USS Cascade (AD-16). US National Archives photo.

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer tender
Class	[No specific class]
Pennant	AD 16
Built by	Western Pipe & Steel Co. (San Francisco, California, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	7 Jul 1941
Launched	6 Jun 1942
Commissioned	12 Mar 1943
End service	22 Sep 1974
History	Displacement: 9260 BRT Length: 492 feet Complement: 826 Armament: 1 5" guns, 4 3" AA guns (4x1) Speed: 18 kts Decommissioned on 12 February 1947 Recommissioned on 5 April 1951 Decommissioned on 22 November 1974 Sticken on 23 November 1974 sold to be broken up for scrap on 1 October 1975

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Capt. Samuel Burr Ogden, USN	12 Mar 1943	10 May 1944 (1)
2	T/Capt. Herbert Kenneth Gates, USN	10 May 1944	24 Dec 1945 (1)

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