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AGC-15 Adirondack

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal

Adirondack Class Amphibious Force Flagship:

Laid down, 18 November 1944, as a Maritime Commission type (C2-S-AJ1) hull, under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1705) at North Carolina Shipbuilding Co., Wilmington, N.C.

Launched, 13 January 1945

Acquired by the Navy, 4 February 1945

Commissioned USS Adirondack (AGC-15), 2 September 1945, CAPT. R. 0. Myers in command

Decommissioned, 1 February 1950, at Philadelphia, PA. and placed in reserve in service

Recommissioned, 4 April 1951

Decommissioned, 9 February 1955, at Norfolk, VA.

Transferred to the Maritime Commission for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Fort Eustis, VA.

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 June 1961

Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 7 November 1972, to Union Minerals and Alloys Corp., New York City, N.Y.

Specifications:
Displacement 7,240 t (lt) 13,910 t.(fl)
Length 459' 2"
Beam 63'
Draft 24'
Speed 16 kts.
Complement 633
Armament two single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts, three twin 40mm gun mounts, six single 20mm gun mounts
Propulsion geared turbine, single propeller, 6,000shp

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
37k	Adirondack (AGC-15), in Chesapeake Bay, 16 October 1945. US Navy photo	Auxiliary Vessels Ferry Crew #5 and USS Adirondack AGC-15 web site
54k	Adirondack (AGC-15), date and place unknown. US Navy photo.	Stanley C. Svec
152k	Overhead view of Adirondack (AGC-15) underway, date and place unknown.	Submitted by Christopher Albright for his father Joseph Albright YN3 USS Adirondack
63k	Radoteletypewriters in use aboard Adirondack (AGC-15) circa 1946. Radioman Second Class J. V. Miceli is shown in the foreground seated at the Model 19 teletypewriter used in copying MERFOX radio broadcast schedules. He is using the tape machine next to the teletypewriter to work with a message punched onto paper tape. Seaman First Class J. K. Wooster is seated at a Model 19 teletypewriter that was used to handle traffic to and from NSS, the Navy's long-range communications station at Annapolis, Md. Behind him are two Model 15 teletypewriters. The transfer panel on the rear bulkhead was used for connecting various teletypewriters throughout the ship. The photo may have been taken on 26 August 1946; it later appeared in All Hands magazine. US Navy photo # NH 104251 from the "All Hands" Collection at the Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center
53k	Adirondack (AGC-15) in the James River Reserve Fleet, 27 May 1962. Visible to her starboard is the stern of Galilea (AKN-6) and the bow of (probably) Libra (AKA-12). The stern of *Galilea* shows the condition of the ship when her conversion from LSV to AKN was canceled incomplete in December 1946. *Libra* and a few other early AKAs can be recognized by the heavy central kingposts added to the goalpost masts forward and aft of the bridge. US Navy photo # NH 66856 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center. Courtesy of the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia. Ted Stone Collection	US Naval Historical Center

View the Adirondack (AGC-15)
DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site

Crew contact and reunion information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
Auxiliary Vessels Ferry Crew #5 and The USS Adirondack AGC-15

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Last Updated 26 January 2007