USS Estes
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USS Estes (AGC-12) was a Mount McKinley-class amphibious force command ship. It is officially named after "A mountain peak and national park in Colorado."[1]
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United States | |
Name | USS Estes |
Builder | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina |
Laid down | 25 August 1943 |
Launched | 1 November 1943 |
Acquired | 22 February 1944 |
Commissioned | 9 October 1944 |
Decommissioned | 30 June 1949 |
Recommissioned | 31 January 1951 |
Decommissioned | 31 October 1969 |
Stricken | 30 July 1976 |
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Fate | Sold for scrap, 1 December 1977 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Mount McKinley-class amphibious command ship |
Displacement | 7,240 long tons (7,356 t) |
Length | 459 ft 2 in (139.95 m) |
Beam | 63 ft (19 m) |
Draft | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
Complement | 633 |
Armament | 1 × 5 in (127 mm)/38 caliber gun |
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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.