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{{short description|Class of command ships of the United States Navy}}
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| Ship image =File:USS Adirondack (AGC-15), circa in 1951 (6929425).jpg
| Ship caption = USS ''Adirondack'' in 1951
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{{Infobox ship class overview
| Name = ''Adirondack'' class
| Builders = [[North Carolina Shipbuilding Co.]]
| Operators = {{navy|United States}}
| Class before = [[Mount McKinley-class command ship|''Mount McKinley'' class]]
| Class after = [[Blue Ridge-class command ship|''Blue Ridge'' class]]
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| Cost = 
| Built range = 1944–1945
| In service range = 1945–1969
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| Total ships building = 
| Total ships planned = 3
| Total ships completed = 3
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| Total ships retired = 3
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| Ship type = *[[Command ship]]
* [[Type C2 ship|type C2-S-AJ1]]
| Ship displacement = *{{convert|7240|t|LT|0|abbr=on}}, light load 
* {{convert|12750|t|LT|0|abbr=on}}, full load
| Ship length = {{convert|459|ft|3|in|m|abbr=on}}
| Ship beam = {{convert|63|ft|m|abbr=on}}
| Ship draft = {{convert|24|ft|0|in|m|abbr=on}}
| Ship depth = 
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| Ship propulsion = *1 × [[General Electric]] [[geared turbine]]
* 2 × [[Combustion Engineering]] header-type [[Boiler (power generation)|boiler]]s
| Ship power = *1 × [[propeller]]
* {{convert|6000|shp|0|abbr=on}}
* {{convert|450|psi|0|abbr=on}}
| Ship speed = {{convert|16.4|kn|lk=in}}
| Ship boats = 
| Ship capacity = *710 [[Barrel (unit)|bbl]]s [[Diesel fuel|diesel]]
* 20,300 bbls [[Navy special fuel oil|NSFO]]
| Ship troops = 
| Ship complement = *54 officers
* 579 enlisted
| Ship armament = *2 × single [[5-inch/38-caliber gun|5"/38 caliber gun]]s
* 6 × single [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon]]s
* 4 × twin [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|Bofors 40 mm gun]]s
| Ship sensors = *As designed:
**1 × [[AN/SPS-6]] [[Air search radar|air-search radar]]
**1 × [[SP radar|SP]] [[fighter-direction radar]]
* Modernization:
**1 × [[AN/SPS-6]] air-search radar
**1 × [[AN/SPS-8]] [[Height finder radar|height-finder radar]]
**1 × [[AN/SPS-10]] [[surface-search radar]]
**1 × [[AN/SPS-29]] [[early-warning radar]]
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| Ship aircraft facilities = [[Helicopter deck]]
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The '''''Adirondack''-class command ship''' was a [[ship class]] of [[command ship]]s of the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]] and the [[Cold War]]. All 3 ships were converted from the [[Type C2 ship|Type C2-S-AJ1]] [[cargo ship]]s.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft: An Illustrated Design History |publisher=[[Naval Institute Press]] |year=2002 |isbn=1-55750-250-1 |location=[[Annapolis, Maryland|Annapolis]]}}</ref>

== Development ==
Three type C2 cargo ships were converted into command ships for the United States Navy throughout the later stages of World War II. After the war, all were modernized with new radars and decommissioned by 1969 to later be scrapped.

The ship's hull remained nearly the same but with new equipment to carry out her purpose now placed on deck alongside several cranes. The ships' armaments had been slightly changed and relocated in order for the ships to carry out their new roles.<ref name=":0" /> All ships served in the [[Pacific War|Pacific Theater]] until the end of the war with no ships lost in combat.

== Ships in the class ==
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! colspan="8" |''Adirondack'' class command ship<ref>{{Cite book |last=Thomas Jane |first=Frederick |title=Jane's Fighting Ships |publisher=Sampson Low, Marston and Company |year=1974}}</ref>
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!{{nowrap|Hull no.}}
!Name
!Builder
!Laid down
!Launched
!Commissioned
!Recommissioned
!Decommissioned
!Fate
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|AGC-15
| ''[[USS Adirondack (AGC-15)|Adirondack]]''
| rowspan="3" align="center" |[[North Carolina Shipbuilding Co.]]
|18 November 1944
|13 January 1945
|2 September 1945
|4 April 1951
|9 February 1955
|Scrapped, 7 November 1972
|-
|AGC-16 / LCC-16
|''[[USS Pocono|Pocono]]''
|30 November 1944
|25 January 1945
|29 December 1945
|18 August 1951
|16 September 1971
|Scrapped, 9 December 1981
|-
|AGC-17 / LCC-17
|''[[USS Taconic|Taconic]]''
|19 December 1943
|10 February 1944
|16 January 1945
| -
|17 December 1969
|Scrapped, 1 March 1982
|}

== References ==
* {{navsource|10/01/01idx|USS Adirondack}} - lead ship of the class (other AGC ships listed as well)
* United States Navy. 1959-1991. ''[[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]].''
* Thomas Jane, Frederick. 1974. ''Jane's Fighting Ships.'' Sampson Low, Marston and Company.
* 2002. ''U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft: An Illustrated Design History.'' [[Annapolis, Maryland|Annapolis]]: [[United States Naval Institute|Naval Institute Press]]. {{ISBN|1-55750-250-1}}.

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