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 Annapolis web site
•    USS Annapolis web site

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

• 1952 Northampton (CLC-1) Radio Equipment Diagram
• USS Northampton web site

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

• USS Wright web site
• USS Wright web site
• USS Wright web site

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 - 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

Tropo antennas at Lewes, Delaware (thanks to Delaware State Parks) Article on Lewes - Delaware Outdoor Magazine

Tropo antennas at Lewes, Delaware

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 Teton AGC-14 - 1945	USS Adirondack AGC-15 - postwar
USS Adirondack AGC-15 1946	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