Sunday, April 25, 2021

USS Coronado (AGF-11) (originally LPD-11) was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named after the city of the same name in the U.S. state of California. She was designed as an Austin-class amphibious transport dock (LPD), one of seven fitted with an additional superstructure level for command ship duties.

USS Coronado underway at sea in 1990.

Starboard bow view of the auxiliary command ship USS Coronado (AGF-11) as she returns to Hawaii at the end of exercise RIMPAC '98.


 The ship was launched on 1 July 1966, commissioned 23 May 1970, and became the most advanced command ship in the world. The ship was the second combatant ship in the United States Navy (USS LaSalle - AGF 3 integrated women aboard in 1993) to integrate women as full-time crew members.[3]

Coronado was decommissioned on 30 September 2006, was used for target practice during Valiant Shield 2012 exercises, and was sunk in the Marianas Island Range Complex on 12 September 2012.

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