USS Pocono
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USS Pocono was an Adirondack-class amphibious force command ship named after a range of Pocono Mountains in eastern Pennsylvania. She was designed as an amphibious force flagship, a floating command p
USS Pocono (AGC-16/LCC-16)
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A ship sponsor, by tradition, is a female civilian who is invited to "sponsor" a vessel, presumably to bestow good luck and divine protection over the seagoing vessel and all that sail aboard. In the
USS Pocono
…laid down on 30 November 1944 and the vessel was launched on 25 January 1945 by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, of Wilmington, North Carolina, sponsored by Miss Mary V. Carmines of Messick. The ship was acquired by the Navy on 15 February 1945, towed to Boston for fitting out and commissioned on 29…
Kate Lehrer, sponsor of USS Wichita (LCS-13), breaks a bottle of champagne on the ship during a christening ceremony in 2016