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.
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.
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. 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 NameBuilderLaid downLaunchedCommissionedDecommissionedFateAGC-7 / LCC-7North Carolina Shipbuilding Co.31 July 194327 September 19431 May 194426 March 1970Scrapped, 22 September 1977AGC-83 August 19433 October 19434 May 19444 April 1956Scrapped, 22 January 1973AGC-98 October 194320 May 194430 August 1946ScrappedAGC-1014 August 194319 October 194320 July 19447 May 1947Scrapped, 17 February 1961AGC-11 / LCC-1126 October 194326 August 19448 November 1972Scrapped, 25 April 1974AGC-12 / LCC-121 November 19439 October 194431 October 1969Scrapped, 1 December 1977AGC-131 September 19439 November 194314 October 1944January 1947Scrapped, 20 March 1961AGC-149 November 19435 February 194418 October 194430 August 1946Scrapped, 26 March 1962
References
External links Amphibious Force Command Ship (AGC) photo gallery United States Navy. 1959–1991. Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Worth, Richard. 2001. Fleets of World War II. Da Capo Press. 2002. U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. .