Description: Command ships serve as the flagships for the Commander, Third Fleet, and Commander, Sixth Fleet.
Features: Command ships provide communications and accommodations for fleet commanders and staff. Ships are equipped air and surface radars, helicopter, chaff launchers, and an electronic warfare suite.
Background: These ships were converted from amphibious warfare ships for employment as command ships.
Point of Contact:
Public Affairs Office
Naval Sea Systems Command
Washington, DC 20362
Builders: (as LPD 11) Lockheed Shipbuilding & Construction Co.
Conversion: (to AGF 11) Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, Penn.
Power Plant: two boilers, geared turbines, twin shafts, 24,000 shaft horsepower
Length: 570 feet (173.8 meters)
Beam: 100 feet (30.5 meters)
Displacement: 16,912 tons (17,183.41 metric tons)
Speed: 21 knots
Aircraft: two light helicopters
Ship: USS Coronado (AGF 11), San Diego, Calif.
Crew: 516 ships company + 120 flag staff
Armament: two Phalanx close-in-weapons system, two 12.7 mm MGs