Navy | The US Navy |
Type | Destroyer tender |
Class | Dixie |
Pennant | AD 15 |
Built by | New York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.) |
Ordered | 14 Oct 1938 |
Laid down | 7 Dec 1938 |
Launched | 9 Dec 1939 |
Commissioned | 5 Aug 1940 |
End service | 26 Mar 1993 |
History | Decommissioned and stricken on 26 March 1993 |
Commands listed for USS Prairie (AD 15)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | Cdr. John Beresford Wynn Waller, USN | 5 Aug 1940 | 5 Oct 1941 |
2 | Robert Walton Flemming, USN | 5 Oct 1941 | 27 Nov 1942 |
3 | T/Capt. Francis Paxton Old, USN | 27 Nov 1942 | 5 Jul 1944 (1) |
4 | T/Capt. Omer Archibald Kneeland, USN | 5 Jul 1944 | 19 Jun 1945 |
5 | Francis Stephenson Gibson, USNR | 19 Jun 1945 | 7 Oct 1945 |
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