USS Mount Whitney (LCC-20)
USS Mount Whitney (LCC/JCC 20)
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| Name: | USS Mount Whitney |
| Ordered: | 10 August 1966 |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company |
| Laid down: | 8 January 1969 |
| Launched: | 8 January 1970 |
| Commissioned: | 16 January 1971 |
| Homeport: | Gaeta, Italy |
| Status: | in active service |
| Badge: |  |
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| Displacement: | 18,400 tons full load |
| Length: | 189 m (620.1 ft) |
| Beam: | 33 m (108.3 ft) |
| Draft: | 906.78 cm (29.8 ft) full load |
| Propulsion: | Two boilers, one geared turbine |
| Capacity: | 930 |
| Complement: | 170 officers and enlisted men; and 155 Military Sealift Command civilian sailors |
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| Aircraft carried: | One helicopter, currently a MH-60S Knight Hawk |
The USS Mount Whitney (LCC/JCC 20) is a Blue Ridge class command ship of the US Navy; it is the flagship of the Sixth Fleet. She is also the command and control ship for the Commander Joint Command Lisbon and the Commander Striking Force NATO. She had previously served for years as the COMSTRIKFLTLANT(NATO Designation) / Second Fleet's command ship.
She was classified as the LCC-20 on 1 January 1969, and she was laid down on 8 January by Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company, Newport News, Virginia.
The ship is named for Mount Whitney, a peak in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California. Mount Whitney is the highest summit in the contiguous United States with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m).
Alleged to be the most sophisticated Command, Control, Communications, Computer, and Intelligence (C4I) ship ever commissioned,Mount Whitney incorporates various elements of the most advanced C4I equipment and gives the embarked Joint Task Force Commander the capability to effectively command all units under his or her command.
The Mount Whitney can transmit and receive large amounts of secure data to and from any point on earth through HF, UHF, VHF, and SHF (satellite communications) communications channels. This electronic technology enables the Joint Intelligence Center and Joint Operations Center to provide the most timely intelligence and operational support available in the Navy.
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