Mount Whitney (LCC-20) at Varna 30.09.2007

# Blue Ridge Class Command Ship/Joint Command Ship/Amphibious Force Command Ship: Originally authorized as AGC-20
# Reclassified LCC-20, 1 January 1969
# Laid down, 8 January 1969, at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock, Newport News, VA.
# Launched, 8 January 1970
# Commissioned USS Mount Whitney (LCC-20), 16 January 1971
# Mount Whitney serves as the flagship for Commander Second Fleet/Commander Striking Fleet Atlantic, and is homeported at Norfolk, VA.
# Mount Whitney is scheduled to be turned over to control of the Military Sealift Command (MSC) in 2006
Navigation, deck, engineering, laundry and galley services provided by MSC civil service mariners. Commanded by
a Naval officer with a Navy mission crew Specifications:
Displacement 17,000 t,
Length 620'
Beam 82'
Draft 27'
Speed 20 kts.
Complement
Crew 777
Staff 869
Armament
Super RBOC chaff rockets
two 25mm Bushmaster guns
four 50 cal. Machine guns
two 20mm Phalanx (CIWS)
Propulsion two boilers, one geared steam turbine, one shaft, 20,000 shaft horsepower