USS POCONO AGC-16

USS POCONO (AGC-16) was an Adirondack class amphibious force command ship named after a range of 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.

Decommissioned on 16 September 1971, she was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 December 1976. Pocono was sold for non-transportation use 3 December 1981 to Union Minerals & Alloys of New York, NY and scrapped.

General Characteristics:	Awarded: November 30, 1944
	Keel laid: November 30, 1944
	Launched: January 25, 1945
	Commissioned: December 29, 1945
	Decommissioned: June 19, 1949
	Recommissioned: August 18, 1951
	Decommissioned: September 16, 1971
	Builder: North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, NC
	Propulsion system: Geared turbine, 6,000 horsepower
	Propellers: One
	Length: 459 feet, 2 inches
	Beam: 63 feet
	Draft: 24 feet
	Displacement: 13,910 tons
	Speed: 16 knots
	Crew: 490
	Armament: Two single 5"/38 DP gun mounts, three twin 40mm AA gun mounts, six single 20mm AA gun mounts

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