USS Adirondack

Last updated September 22, 2021

USS Adirondack may refer to:

USS Adirondack (1862), was a gunboat during the American Civil War that sank off the Bahamas
USS Adirondack (YT-44), was an iron-hulled screw tugboat originally known as Underwriter.
USS Adirondack (ID-1270), was commissioned into the Navy in 1917 and used as a floating barracks until 1919.
USS Adirondack (AGC-15), was an amphibious force flagship in service from 1945 to 1955.

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The third USS Adirondack (AGC-15) was laid down on 18 November 1944 under a Maritime Commission contract by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company in Wilmington, North Carolina; launched on 13 January 1945, sponsored by Mrs. E. L. White; transferred to the Navy on 4 February 1945; towed to the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard for conversion; and commissioned on 2 September 1945, the day Japan surrendered on board the battleship Missouri (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay, with Captain R. O. Myers in command.

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North Carolina Shipbuilding Company was a shipyard in Wilmington, North Carolina, created as part of the U.S. Government's Emergency Shipbuilding Program in the early days of World War II. From 1941 through 1946, the company built 243 ships in all, beginning with the Liberty ship SS Zebulon B. Vance, and including 54 ships of the US Navy. Most of the latter were attack cargo ships (AKA), amphibious force flagships (AGC) and ammunition ships (AE). A list of all 54 Navy ships appears at the end of this article, as does a link to a detailed record of all ships built by the company.

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The first USS Adirondack was a large and powerful screw-assisted sloop of war with heavy guns, contracted by the Union Navy early in the American Civil War. She was intended for use by the Union Navy as a warship in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. Her career with the Navy proved to be short, yet active and historically important. USS Adirondack was one of four sister ships which included the Housatonic, Ossipee and Juniata.

USS Underwriter (1880), later renamed USS Adirondack, was a tugboat acquired by the U.S. Navy for duty during World War I. After the end of war, she remained on active duty performing miscellaneous tasks and services until she was decommissioned and sold in 1922.

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