_underway_in_early_1960s.jpg) USS Mount McKinley (AGC-7)
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Mount McKinley |
| Namesake | Mount McKinley in Alaska |
| Laid down | 31 July 1943 |
| Launched | 27 September 1943 |
| Commissioned | 1 May 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 26 March 1970 |
| Stricken | 30 July 1976 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap in 1979 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Mount McKinley-class command ship |
| Displacement | 12,550 tons |
| Length | 459 ft 2 in (139.95 m) |
| Beam | 63 ft (19 m) |
| Draft | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h) |
| Complement | 664 |
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USS Mount McKinley (AGC-7/LCC-7) was the lead ship of the Mount McKinley class of amphibious force command ships. She was named after the highest mountain in North America. 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.