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Rocky Mount 1944

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
AGC1	Appalachian	242	Federal, Kearny // Todd, Brooklyn	11.1942	29.1.1943	10.1943	stricken 3.1959
AGC2	Blue Ridge	243	Federal, Kearny // Bethlehem, Brooklyn	12/1942	7.3.1943	9.1943	stricken 1.1960
AGC3	Rocky Mount	244	Federal, Kearny // Bethlehem, Hoboken	12.1942	7.3.1943	10.1943	stricken 7.1960
AGC5	Catoctin (ex-Mary Whitridge)	231	Moore, Oakland // Philadelphia N Yd	1942	23.1.1943	1.1944	stricken 12.1959

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	8700
Displacement full, t	13910
Length, m	132.6 wl 140.0 a
Breadth, m	19.2
Draught, m	7.32 full load
No of shafts	1
Machinery	AGC1, 2: 1 set General Electric geared steam turbines, 2 Combustion Engineering boilers AGC3: 1 set De Laval geared steam turbines, 2 Combustion Engineering boilers AGC5: 1 set General Electric geared steam turbines, 2 Foster Wheeler boilers
Power, h. p.	6600
Max speed, kts	17
Fuel, t	oil 3305
Endurance, nm(kts)	48460(15)
Armament	2 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 12, 4 x 2 - 40/56 Mk 1.2, 14 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 4
Military load	2 LCVP, 4 LCPL, 2 LCPR, 2 LCC, 165 persons of HQ
Electronic equipment	presumably SA or SC or SR, SG or SU, SK, SM or SP radars
Complement	875

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Project history

Amphibious command ships (sometimes were called also as command ships) were equipped with a wide set of a communication facility and landing commander operated all the kinds of forces from these ships: from fire support ships till fighter aviation. Majority of AGCs was built in hulls of standard transports of C2 type, except for converted in 1944 six Treasury class Coast Guard cutters and small seaplane tender Biscayne, converted in 1943. Appalachian class ships were converted from C2-S-B1 hulls.

Modernizations

None.

1/1946, all: 2 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 4 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 14 x 1 - 20/70 Mk 10, SA or SC or SR, SG or SU, SK, SM or SP radars

Naval service

Catoctin was damaged by German aircraft at Southern coast of France 18.8.1944.