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Mount McKinley (AGC-7) Class: Photographs


These photographs were selected to show the original configuration of this class and major subsequent modifications. For more views see the former NHHC (now Hyperwar) Online Library of Selected Images and the NavSource Photo Archive.

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USS Panamint (AGC-13)

Photographed by the Mare Island Navy Yard on 28 December 1944.

Photo No. 19-N-78603
Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-19-LCM)


 
USS Mount McKinley (AGC-7)

Photographed by the Mare Island Navy Yard on 25 August 1945.

Photo No. 19-N-89212
Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-19-LCM)


 
USS Panamint (AGC-13)

Photographed by the Mare Island Navy Yard on 1 May 1946.

Photo No. 19-N-94903
Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-19-LCM)


 
USS Estes (AGC-12)

Photographed by the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Sinclair Inlet on 28 July 1947.

Photo No. 19-N-129116
Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-19-LCM)


 
USS Adirondack (AGC-15)

Photographed by the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on 28 July 1951.
This and the other two final ships in this class (AGC 15-17) had a heavy pole mast aft instead of a twin goalpost, and their lattice mast over the superstructure appears to have been taller.

Photo No. 19-N-137822
Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-19-LCM)


 
USS Mount McKinley (AGC-7)

Off Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, in 1962 during Exercise PHIBLANTEX 1-62. Note the plethora of antennas on her masts. Each ship of this class developed over time a different configuration of antennas. The ship in the upper left is a MSTS Victory ship.

Photo No. USN 1060456
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  USS Mount McKinley
USS Taconic (AGC-17)

Underway in October 1964 for Exercise Steel Pike One. Note the pole mast aft.

Photo No. USN 1110602
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  USS Taconic
USS Pocono (AGC-16)

Operating with an amphibious force circa the 1960s.

Photo No. Unknown
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