USS Auburn (AGC-10)
USS Auburn in Manila Bay, August 1945. |
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Career | |
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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