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Chapters: Altair Class Destroyer Tenders, Design 1079 Ships of the United States Navy, Dixie Class Destroyer Tenders, Dobbin Class Destroyer Tenders, Hamul Class Destroyer Tenders, Klondike Class Destroyer Tenders, Samuel Gompers Class Destroyer Tender, Shenandoah Class Destroyer Tenders, Unique Destroyer Tenders of the United States Navy, Yellowstone Class Destroyer Tenders, Uss Cascade, Uss Bridgeport, Uss Acadia, Uss Piedmont, Uss Altair, Uss Samuel Gompers, Uss Markab, Uss Tidewater, Uss Yellowstone, Uss Yosemite, Uss Rigel, Uss Grand Canyon, Uss Sierra, Uss Hamul, Uss Puget Sound, Uss Klondike, Uss Melville, Uss Denebola, Uss Arcadia, Uss Prairie, Uss Dixie, Uss Leonidas, Uss Alcor, Uss Black Hawk, Uss Frontier, Uss Dobbin, Uss Isle Royale, Uss Shenandoah, Uss Everglades, Uss Bryce Canyon, Uss Cape Cod, Uss Whitney, Uss New England. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 153. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: 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 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 c...http: //booksllc.net/?id=223260
