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U.S.S. TACONIC
(AGC-17)VOX IMPERATORIS
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USS TACONIC (AGC-17 ) - an Adirondack-class command ship
In Commission 1945 to 1969AGC-17 Deployments - Major Events
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Month | Year | to | Month | Year | Deployment / Event |
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DEC | 1944 | - | Keel Date: 19 DEC 1944 at North Carolina Shipbuilding Company Wilmington NC | ||
JAN | 1945 | - | Commissioned: 16 JAN 1945 | ||
FEB | 1945 | - | Launch Date: 10 FEB 1945 | ||
FEB | 1947 | - | MAR | 1947 | Caribbean |
OCT | 1947 | - | NOV | 1947 | OPERATION SEMINOLE |
JUN | 1951 | - | JUN | 1951 | Was the Flagship in the movie “ The Frogmen “ |
APR | 1952 | - | SEP | 1952 | Blue Nose - Arctic Circle |
APR | 1952 | - | SEP | 1952 | OPERATION BLUE JAY THULE GREENLAND |
MAR | 1953 | - | MAR | 1953 | Golden Shellback Intiation |
JAN | 1956 | - | JAN | 1956 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1956 | - | JAN | 1958 | Mediterranean-Lebanon |
APR | 1958 | - | OCT | 1958 | Mediterranean-Lebanon |
APR | 1958 | - | OCT | 1958 | Mediterranean-Lebanon |
MAY | 1958 | - | OCT | 1958 | Mediterranean-Lebanon |
JUL | 1958 | - | JUN | 1961 | Mediterranean |
JUL | 1959 | - | JAN | 1960 | Mediterranean |
AUG | 1959 | - | DEC | 1959 | Mediterranean-Indian Ocean-Persian Gulf |
OCT | 1960 | - | MAY | 1961 | Mediterranean |
JAN | 1962 | - | AUG | 1962 | Mediterranean |
SEP | 1962 | - | JAN | 1963 | Dry Dock |
SEP | 1962 | - | JAN | 1963 | Philadelphia Naval Shipyard Philadelphia Pennsylvania |
OCT | 1962 | - | DEC | 1962 | Cuban Missle Blockade |
JAN | 1963 | - | MAY | 1963 | Caribbean |
APR | 1963 | - | APR | 1963 | Bermuda B.W.I. |
APR | 1963 | - | MAY | 1963 | Guantanamo Bay |
APR | 1963 | - | MAY | 1963 | San Juan Puerto Rico |
APR | 1963 | - | MAY | 1963 | Take Vice Admiral Horacio Rivero USN & Staff to Puerto Rico |
MAY | 1963 | - | MAY | 1963 | Haitian Patrol |
AUG | 1963 | - | DEC | 1963 | Mediterranean |
JUN | 1966 | - | AUG | 1966 | Dry Dock |
FEB | 1967 | - | OCT | 1968 | Regular Overhaul |
APR | 1968 | - | JUN | 1968 | Mediterranean |
MAY | 1968 | - | JUL | 1968 | Caribbean |
JUN | 1969 | - | AUG | 1969 | Guantanamo Bay |
JUN | 1969 | - | AUG | 1969 | Guantanamo Bay |
DEC | 1969 | - | Decommissioned: 17 DEC 1969 |
AGC-17 General Specifications
Class: Adirondack-class command ship
Complement: 633 Officers and Enlisted
Displacement: 7240 tons
Length: 459 feet 2 inches
Beam: 63 feet
Draft: 24 feet
Final Disposition: Sold for scrap 6 April 1982
USS TACONIC (AGC-17)
Taconic was laid down under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1710) at Wilmington, N.C., on
19 December 1944 by the North
Carolina Shipbuilding Co.; launched on 10 February 1945; sponsored by Mrs. O.
W. Turner; acquired by the Navy on 6 March 1945; converted to an amphibious force flagship at the
Atlantic Basin Iron Works in
Brooklyn, N.Y.; and commissioned there
on 16 January 1945, Capt. C. G. Christie in command.
Upon commissioning, Taconic
began a long tour of duty with the Atlantic Fleet. She served alternately
as flagship of the Atlantic Fleet
Amphibious Force and of Amphibious
Groups 2 and 4. Between June 1946 and June 1949, she participated in
CAMID I, II. and III, amphibious warfare
exercises conducted in the Chesapeake
Bay area and encompassing joint training for Military Academy cadets and Naval Academy midshipmen. Each
spring, the amphibious force flagship joined the
Atlantic Fleet maneuvers carried out in the Caribbean area
In
June 1949, following a yard overhaul at Norfolk, Va., she took part in Operation "Diaper,"
the transportation
of Navy men and their dependents from the Canal Zone to Norfolk.
Taconic remained in active service for 20 more years. During that entire period
of time, she retained Norfolk as her home port. She participated in numerous
exercises
both with the 2d and 6th Fleets, and with units of NATO nations. The amphibious
force flagship was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea on eight different occasions in those two
decades; and, in the summer of 1985 she served as flagship of the Commander, Middle East
Force, during the Lebanon landings. In November 1959, she served as
communication and support ship to President Eisenhower during the Pakistan-Afghanistan-India leg of his visit to
a number of European and Asian countries. When not
deployed with the 6th Fleet, she operated with the 2d Fleet in the western Atlantic and in the Caribbean. The
bulk of those operations consisted of exercises; but, on one occasion in March
1957, she
carried President Eisenhower's limousines to Bermuda
for his meeting
with British Prime
Minister Harold MacMillan. In January 1963, Taconic patrolled the Haitian coast during
political unrest in that country. She returned to the Caribbean area for special duty
again in May and June of 1965 during similar troubles in the Dominican
Republic. In
January 1969, at the beginning of her last year of service, Taconic was
redesignated LCC-17. After 12 months of operations and preparations for decommissioning, the amphibious
force flagship was placed out of
commission, in reserve, on 17 December 1969 at Norfolk, Va. She was berthed with the National Defense Reserve Fleet at its James River, Va., berthing
area and remained there into October
1979.
[Note: The above USS TACONIC (AGC-17) history may, or may not, contain text provided by crew members of the USS TACONIC (AGC-17), or by other non-crew members, and text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]