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
Honours and awards
2 battle stars (WWII)
2 battle stars (Korea)
6 campaign stars (Vietnam)
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
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]
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.
^Since there is no mountain peak nor national park in Colorado named "Estes", this is unlikely, although official <Estes History>. An alternative source of the name is "for the mountain range in Colorado near Estes Park", found at http://www.ussestes.org/ShipInfo/History.htm . However, the range near Estes Park is the Front Range; there is no mountain range named "Estes" in Colorado either.
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