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  Eldorado 1944

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
AGC7, 1.1969- LCC7	Mount McKinley (ex-Cyclone)	92	North Carolina SB, Wilmington // Philadelphia N Yd	7.1943	27.9.1943	5.1944	stricken 3.1970
AGC8	Mount Olympus (ex-Eclipse)	93	North Carolina SB, Wilmington // Boston N Yd, Charlestown	8.1943	3.10.1943	5.1944	stricken 6.1961
AGC9	Wasatch (ex-Fleetwing)	94	North Carolina SB, Wilmington // Norfolk N Yd, Portsmouth	8.1943	8.10.1943	5.1944	stricken 1.1960
AGC10	Auburn (ex-Kathay)	96	North Carolina SB, Wilmington // Bethlehem, Hoboken	8.1943	19.10.1943	7.1944	stricken 7.1960
AGC11, 1.1969- LCC11	Eldorado (ex-Monsoon)	97	North Carolina SB, Wilmington // Bethlehem, Brooklyn	1943	26.10.1943	8.1944	stricken 11.1972
AGC12, 1.1969- LCC12	Estes (ex-Morning Star)	98	North Carolina SB, Wilmington // Norfolk N Yd, Portsmouth	1943	1.11.1943	10.1944	stricken 7.1976
AGC13	Panamint (ex-Northern Light)	99	North Carolina SB, Wilmington // Todd, Hoboken	9.1943	9.11.1943	10.1944	stricken 7.1960
AGC14	Teton (ex-Witch of the Wave)	108	North Carolina SB, Wilmington // Bethlehem, Brooklyn	11.1943	5.2.1944	10.1944	stricken 6.1961
AGC15	Adirondack	196	North Carolina SB, Wilmington // Philadelphia N Yd	11/1944	13.1.1945	9.1945	stricken 6.1961
AGC16, 1.1969 - LCC16	Pocono	198	North Carolina SB, Wilmington // Boston N Yd, Charlestown	11/1944	25.1.1945	12.1945	stricken 12.1976
AGC17, 1.1969- LCC17	Taconic	201	North Carolina SB, Wilmington // Atlantic Basin IW, Portsmouth	12/1944	10.2.1945	1.1946	stricken 12.1976

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	8700
Displacement full, t	12560
Length, m	132.6 wl 139.9 oa
Breadth, m	19.2
Draught, m	7.60 full load
No of shafts	1
Machinery	AGC7-10, 14: 1 set General Electric geared steam turbines, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers AGC11-13, 15-17: 1 set General Electric geared steam turbines, 2 Combustion Engineering boilers
Power, h. p.	6600
Max speed, kts	17
Fuel, t	oil 3273
Endurance, nm(kts)	43948(12)
Armament	AGC7 - 14: 2 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 12, 4 x 2 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 14 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4 AGC15, 16: 2 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 12, 4 x 2 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 12 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4 AGC17: 2 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 4 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 12 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10
Military load	2 LCVP, 4 LCPL, 2 LCPR, 2 LCC, 336 persons of HQ AGC15 - 17: 4 LCPL, 1 LCPR, 317 persons of HQ
Electronic equipment	presumably SA or SC or SR, SG or SU, SK, SM or SP radars
Complement	1063

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MOUNT MCKINLEY amphibious command ships (1944-1946)