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Mount McKinley-class command ship

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USS Mount Olympus in 1944
Class overview
Name: Mount McKinley class
Builders: North Carolina Shipbuilding Co.
Operators:  United States Navy
Preceded by: Appalachian class
Succeeded by: Adirondack class
Built: 1943–1944
In service: 1944–1972
Planned: 8
Completed: 8
Retired: 8
General characteristics
Type:
Displacement:
  • 7,500 t (7,382 long tons), light load
  • 12,580 t (12,381 long tons), full load
    • Length: 459 ft 3 in (139.98 m)
    Beam: 63 ft (19 m)
    Draft: 24 ft 0 in (7.32 m)
    Installed power:
    • 1 × propeller
    • 6,000 shp (4,474 kW)
    • 450 psi (3,103 kPa)
    Propulsion:
  • 1 × General Electric geared turbine
  • 2 × Babcock & Wilcox header-type boilers
    • Speed: 16.4 knots (30.4 km/h; 18.9 mph)
    Capacity:
    • 700 bbls diesel
    • 22,650 bbls NSFO
    Troops:
  • 103 officers
  • 338 enlisted
    • Complement:
  • 54 officers
  • 568 enlisted
    • Sensors and
    processing systems:
  • As designed:
    • 1 × SK-2 air-search radar
    • 1 × SP fire-direction radar
  • Modernization:
    • Armament:
  • 2 × single 5"/38 caliber guns
  • 10 × twin Oerlikon 20 mm cannons
  • 4 × twin Bofors 40 mm guns
    • Aviation facilities: Helicopter deck

    The Mount McKinley-class command ship was a ship class of command ships of the United States Navy during World War II and the Cold War. All eight ships were converted from Type C2-S-AJ1 cargo ships.[1]

    Development[]

    Eight type C2 cargo ships were converted into command ships for the US Navy throughout the middle to later stages of World War II. After the war, all were modernized with new radars and all decommissioned by the 1970s to be later scrapped.[2]

    The ship's hull remained nearly the same but with new equipment to carry out her purpose now placed on deck alongside several cranes. The ships' armaments had been slightly changed and relocated in order for the ships to carry out their new roles.[1] All ships served in the Pacific Theater until the end of the war with no ships lost in combat.

    Ships in the class[]

    Mount McKinley-class command ship
    Hull no. Name Builder Laid down Launched Commissioned Decommissioned Fate
    AGC-7 / LCC-7 Mount McKinley North Carolina Shipbuilding Co. 31 July 1943 27 September 1943 1 May 1944 26 March 1970 Scrapped, 22 September 1977
    AGC-8 Mount Olympus 3 August 1943 3 October 1943 4 May 1944 4 April 1956 Scrapped, 22 January 1973
    AGC-9 Wasatch 8 October 1943 20 May 1944 30 August 1946 Scrapped
    AGC-10 Auburn 14 August 1943 19 October 1943 20 July 1944 7 May 1947 Scrapped, 17 February 1961
    AGC-11 / LCC-11 Eldorado 26 October 1943 26 August 1944 8 November 1972 Scrapped, 25 April 1974
    AGC-12 / LCC-12 Estes 1 November 1943 9 October 1944 31 October 1969 Scrapped, 1 December 1977
    AGC-13 Panamint 1 September 1943 9 November 1943 14 October 1944 January 1947 Scrapped, 20 March 1961
    AGC-14 Teton 9 November 1943 5 February 1944 18 October 1944 30 August 1946 Scrapped, 26 March 1962

    References[]

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. 2002. ISBN 1-55750-250-1. 
    2. ↑ Richard, Worth (2001). Fleets of World War II. Da Capo Press. 

    External links[]

  • Preceded by: USS Duane (planned) / Appalachian class (actual)
  • Followed by: Adirondack class


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