North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina
Laid down
30 November 1944
Launched
25 January 1945
Acquired
15 February 1945
Commissioned
29 December 1945
Decommissioned
19 June 1949
Recommissioned
18 August 1951
Decommissioned
16 September 1971
Stricken
1 December 1976
Fate
Sold for scrapping, 3 December 1981
General characteristics
Class and type
Adirondack-class command ship
Displacement
7,240 long tons (7,356 t) light
13,910 long tons (14,133 t) full load
Length
459 ft 2 in (139.95 m)
Beam
63 ft (19 m)
Draft
24 ft (7.3 m)
Propulsion
Geared turbine, 1 shaft, 6,000 shp (4,474 kW)
Speed
16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Complement
490
Armament
2 × 5"/38 caliber guns
3 × twin 40 mm AA guns
6 × single 20 mm AA guns
USS Pocono (AGC-16) was an Adirondack-class amphibious force command ship named after a range of Pocono Mountains in eastern Pennsylvania. 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.
An amphibious force flagship, Pocono's keel was laid down on 30 November 1944 and the vessel was launched on 25 January 1945 by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, of Wilmington, North Carolina, sponsored by Miss Mary V. Carmines of Messick. The ship was acquired by the Navy on 15 February 1945, towed to Boston for fitting out and commissioned on 29 December 1945.
USSPocono (AGC-16) was an Adirondack-class amphibious force command ship named after a range of Pocono Mountains in eastern Pennsylvania. She was designed...
held at Pocono Raceway Pocono Ridge, a neighborhood in Brookfield, Connecticut Pocono Mountain Formation, geologic formation in Virginia USSPocono (AGC-16)...
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assortment of ships; the USS Augusta (CA-31), then the old wooden ship USS Constellation, USS Vixen (PG-53), and then USSPocono (AGC-16). In 1948, the...
USS Augusta (CA-31), then the old wooden ship USS Constellation, USS Vixen (PG-53), and then USSPocono (AGC-16). In 1948, the HQ moved into the former naval hospital...
groups, led by the aircraft carrier USS Valley Forge, the escort carrier USS Rendova, and Task Force 128 led by USSPocono, visited the Persian Gulf. On 20...
East Coast, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Great Lakes. In June 1970 the USSPocono suffered damage to her bow after colliding with the Courier, who also...
(AE-18) USS Pocono (AGC-16) USS Prentiss (AKA-102) USS Rankin (AKA-103) USS Seminole (AKA-104) USS Shoshone (AKA-65) USS Skagit (AKA-105) USS Southampton...
command ship Jean Bart (1940) SP aboard USS Buckley SP aboard USSPocono SP aboard USS Newport News SP aboard USS Vesole List of radars Radar configurations...
Amphibious Forces, Atlantic – amphibious force command ship USSPocono (AGC-16) – and USS Spiegel Grove – to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and encountered...
Gallipoli, Turkey, from a 38-ship amphibious task force led by flagship USSPocono, on 29 September 1957. The principal U.S. Marine unit was the 6th Marines...
and the champagne glass bathtub. He is credited for helping establish the Pocono Mountains in northeast Pennsylvania as the "honeymoon capital of the world...
waterfront was improved by the Gowanus Canal and the canalized Newtown Creek. USS Monitor was the most famous product of the large and growing shipbuilding...
his second Nextel Cup win by taking the checkered flag at the Pocono 500 at the Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. The weekend was somewhat bittersweet...
2011 to 2015. In 2011, Graham would make his ARCA Racing Series debut at Pocono Raceway driving the No. 59 Dodge for Mark Gibson Racing, where he would...
and provides a direct route to Allentown and points north, including the Poconos. Interstate 276, the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Delaware River extension,...
about the local culture. 3* 151 "Puppies & Poconos" December 13, 2016 (2016-12-13) The family heads to the Poconos for some fun activities. They also adopt...
officer, in which he served on the Mine Countermeasures ship Exultant and USS Comstock. After seven years on active duty, Iwuji transitioned to the Navy...
January 19, 1970, p1 "CBS says Carswell backs segregation", UPI report in The Pocono Record (Stroudsburg PA), January 22, 1970, p1 "Carswell Labels His Early...
Center for Nature and Art Nurture Nature Center Peace Valley Nature Center Pocono Environmental Education Center Pool Wildlife Sanctuary Powdermill Nature...
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