USS Bache

Last updated March 23, 2019

Three ships associated with the United States Navy have been named Bache.

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USC&GS A. D. Bache (1871), a United States Coast and Geodetic Survey survey ship named for Alexander Dallas Bache, former Superintendent of the Coast Survey, which was assigned to temporary duty with the U.S. Navy between January and June 1898.
USC&GS A. D. Bache (1901), a United States Coast and Geodetic Survey survey ship named for Alexander Dallas Bache, former Superintendent of the Coast Survey, which served as a patrol vessel in the U.S. Navy from 24 September 1917 to 1 April 1919 and then was returned to the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
USS Bache (DD-470), named for Commander George M. Bache, a destroyer in commission from 1942 to 1968.

USC&GS A. D. Bache (1871–1900), the second steamer of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, was named for the former superintendent Alexander Dallas Bache and launched August 1871 at Wilmington, Delaware.

Alexander Dallas Bache was an American physicist, scientist, and surveyor who erected coastal fortifications and conducted a detailed survey to map the mideastern United States coastline. Originally an army engineer, he later became Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey, and built it into the foremost scientific institution in the country before the Civil War.

USC&GS A. D. Bache (1901-1927), often referred to only as Bache, continued the name of the Bache of 1871 and has been confused, including in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, with that ship even though an entirely new hull and boiler were built in 1901 and only the name and some machinery and instruments were transferred to the new hull. The Bache of 1901 was transferred to the U.S. Navy for World War I service between 24 September 1917 through 21 June 1919 when she was returned to the Coast and Geodetic Survey.

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