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USS Estes (AGC-12)
History
USS EstesUnited States
NameUSS Estes
BuilderNorth Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina
Laid down25 August 1943
Launched1 November 1943
Acquired22 February 1944
Commissioned9 October 1944
Decommissioned30 June 1949
Recommissioned31 January 1951
Decommissioned31 October 1969
Stricken30 July 1976
Honours and
awards
  • 2 battle stars (WWII)
  • 2 battle stars (Korea)
  • 6 campaign stars (Vietnam)
FateSold for scrap, 1 December 1977
General characteristics
Class and typeMount McKinley-class amphibious command ship
Displacement7,240 long tons (7,356 t)
Length459 ft 2 in (139.95 m)
Beam63 ft (19 m)
Draft24 ft (7.3 m)
Speed16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Complement633
Armament1 × 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.

  1. ^ 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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