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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Eldorado |
| Namesake | Eldorado Mountains in Nevada |
| Builder | North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, North Carolina |
| Launched | 26 October 1943 |
| Acquired | 1 February 1944 |
| Commissioned | 25 August 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 8 November 1972 |
| Stricken | 16 November 1972 |
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| Fate | Sold by Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping, 1 December 1976 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Mount McKinley-class amphibious command ship |
| Displacement | 7,234 long tons (7,350 t) |
| Length | 459 ft 2 in (139.95 m) |
| Beam | 63 ft (19 m) |
| Draft | 28 ft 3 in (8.61 m) |
| Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Complement | 684 |
| Armament | 2 × 5"/38 caliber guns (2×1) |
USS Eldorado (AGC-11) was a Mount McKinley-class amphibious force command ship, named after a mountain range in Nevada. The ship 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.