USS Wasatch
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Wasatch |
| Namesake | Wasatch Range in Utah |
| Builder | 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 & awards | 5 battle stars |
| Fate | Scrapped 1960 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & 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 |
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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.