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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