Flagship of the US Navy's Commander, Middle East Force (COMIDEASTFOR) USS “Valcour” at Bahrain in February 1968
Displacement tons (original): 1,766 (light), 2,750 (full load)
Length overall: 95 m
Engines: 2 diesels, total 6,000 b.h.p.
Speed: 18.6 knots
Laid down 21st December 1942 at Lake Washington Shipyard, Houghton, & completed at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton (both in Washington State). Commissioned as a Barnegat-class seaplane tender (AVP-55) on 5th July 1946.
Reclassified as a "miscellaneous command flagship" (AGF-1) on 15th December 1965.
Decommissioned 15th January 1973.
Later used as a test ship for the Electromagnetic Pulse Radiation Environment Simulation for Ships system & sold for scrapping on 1st May 1977.