USS Auburn (AGC-10)

USS Auburn (AGC-10)


For other ships of the same name, see USS Auburn.

USS Auburn in Manila Bay, August 1945.
Career
Name: USS Auburn
Builder: North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina
Laid down: 14 August 1943
Launched: 19 October 1943
Acquired: 31 January 1944
Commissioned: 20 July 1944
Decommissioned: 7 May 1947
Struck: 1 July 1960
Honours and
awards:
2 battle stars (WWII)
Fate: Sold for scrap, 1961
General characteristics
Class & type: Mount McKinley-class amphibious command ship
Displacement: 12,750 long tons (12,955 t)
Length: 459 ft 2 in (139.95 m)
Beam: 63 ft (19 m)
Draft: 26 ft (7.9 m)
Speed: 16.4 knots (30.4 km/h; 18.9 mph)
Complement: 686
Armament: • 2 × 5"/38 caliber guns (2×1)
• 8 × 40 mm guns (4×2)
• 14 × 20 mm guns (14×1)

USS Auburn (AGC-10) was a Mount McKinley-class amphibious force command ship, named after Mount Auburn, northwest of Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was designed as an amphibious force flagship, a floating command post with advanced communications equipment and extensive combat information spaces to be used by the amphibious forces commander and landing force commander during large-scale operations.

Read more about USS Auburn (AGC-10):  Commissioning, 1944, 1945, Post-War