North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina
Laid down
7 August 1943
Launched
8 October 1943
Acquired
31 December 1943
Commissioned
20 May 1944
Decommissioned
30 August 1946
Stricken
1 January 1960
Honours and awards
5 battle stars
Fate
Scrapped 1960
General characteristics
Class and 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
24 ft (7.3 m)
Speed
16.4 knots (30.4 km/h; 18.9 mph)
Complement
612
Armament
2 × 5"/38 caliber guns
4 × twin 40 mm AA guns
USS Wasatch (AGC-9) was a Mount McKinley-class amphibious force command ship, named after a mountain chain in northern Utah. She was designed as a cargo ship and converted into 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.
The ship was laid down as Fleetwing, a type C2-S-AJ1 cargo vessel, under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1349) on 7 August 1943 at Wilmington, N.C., by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company. Fleetwing was launched on 8 October 1943, sponsored by Mrs. P. A. Wilson, and acquired by the Navy on 31 December 1943 for conversion to an amphibious command ship. Renamed Wasatch and designated AGC-9, the ship was converted for naval use at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Va., and commissioned there on 20 May 1944.
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