USN Communications Ships - AGMR, CC, CLC, AGC, LCC

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USS Annapolis AGMR-1 Communications Major Relay Ship
- AGMR-1 Info & Photo Page

Annapolis and Arlington were essentially floating Comm Stations with massive antenna arrays and extensive equipment installations
Annapolis had 48 HF transmitters ranging from 1kw AN/URT-23 to 40kw AN/FRT-40

USS Arlington AGMR-2 Communications Major Relay Ship
- AGMR-2 Info & Photo Page

10 10 kw transmitters (AN/FRT-39)
14 "500 watt transmitters" (AN/URT-23 or AN/FRT-70?)
65 "multi-channel receivers" (AN/FRR-60?)
1200 pieces of teletype gear
109' tall antenna masts
USS Arlington web site
USS Arlington web site

USS Northampton CLC-1 Task Fleet Command Ship
CC-1 Command & Control Ship
- Northampton Info & Photo Page

USS Wright CC-2 Command & Control Ship
- Wright Info & Photo Page

Northampton and Wright were national command center ships (NECPA - National Emergency Command Post Afloat) and included extensive communications equipment and capability

While on station off the US East Coast, Northampton and Wright maintained contact with the shore via UHF troposcatter links to Lola (NC), Lewes (DE), and Cape Cod (MA).

The tropo equipment may have been the AN/FRC-92 on shore and the AN/SRC-24 (REL 2500) shipboard- please send me e-mail if you have any info on this or anything related to these ships.

Web page on Wright and Northampton's mission

Probably Lewes Delaware - original tropo antenna installation atop Battery Hunter - photo from RM 3&2 manual 1971

Later Lewes, Delaware tropo antenna installation at Battery 519 (thanks to Delaware State Parks)

Article on Lewes - Delaware Outdoor Magazine

Later Lewes, Delaware tropo antenna installation at Battery 519

Amphibious Force Command Ships - AGC (later LCC)
See NAVSOURCE for many more photos and info
See Navy Library for description of CIC operation on an AGC

Note - I've tried to select photos that show radio equipment and antenna installations

USS Appalachian AGC-1 - 1944	USS Appalachian AGC-1 - 1945	USS Appalachian AGC-1 - 1945	USS Appalachian AGC-1 - 1945-46
USS Ancon AGC-4 - 1943	USS Ancon AGC-4 - 1943	USS Ancon AGC-4 - 1943	USS Ancon AGC-4 - 1943
USS Ancon AGC-4 - 1943	USS Ancon AGC-4 - 1945	USS Mount McKinley AGC-7	USS Mount McKinley AGC-7 - 1950
USS Eldorado AGC-11 - 1944	USS Eldorado AGC-11 - 1944	USS Estes AGC-12 Estes Info and Photo Page	USS Estes AGC-12
USS Adirondack AGC-15 1946	USS Teton AGC-14 - 1945 USS Adirondack AGC-15 - postwar	USS Pocono AGC-16 - 1957	USS Pocono AGC-16 - 1957
	USS Blue Ridge LCC-19 - 1971	USS Blue Ridge LCC-19 - 1977	USS Blue Ridge LCC-19 - 1980 USS Mount Whitney LCC-20