USS Taconic ( AGC - 17 ) USS " Taconic " ( AGC - 17 / LCC - 17 ) was an " Adirondack " class amphibious force command ship of the U . S . Navy named after the Taconic Mountains in New York . She was designed as an amphibious force flagship , a floating command post with advanced communications equipment and extensive combat information spaces to be used by the amphibious forces commander and landing force commander during large - scale operations . " Taconic " was laid down under Maritime Commission contract ( MC hull 1710 ) at Wilmington , N . C . , on 19 December 1944 by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company ; launched on 10 February 1945 ; sponsored by Mrs . O . W . Turner ; acquired by the Navy on 6 March 1945 ; converted to an amphibious force flagship at the Atlantic Basin Iron Works in Brooklyn , New York ; and commissioned there on 16 January 1945 , Capt . C . G . Christie in command . Service history . Upon commissioning , " Taconic " began a long tour of duty with the Atlantic Fleet . She served alternately as flagship of the Atlantic Fleet Amphibious Force and of Amphibious Groups 2 and 4 . Between June 1946 and June 1949 , she participated in CAMID I , II , and III , amphibious warfare exercises conducted in the Chesapeake Bay area and encompassing joint training for United States Military Academy cadets and United States Naval Academy midshipmen . Each spring , the amphibious force flagship joined the Atlantic Fleet maneuvers carried out in the Caribbean area . In June 1949 , following a yard overhaul at Norfolk , Virginia , she took part in Operation " Diaper , " the transportation of Navy men and their dependents from the Canal Zone to Norfolk . In 1951 " Taconic " was featured as the command ship in the Richard Widmark film , The Frogmen . " Taconic " remained in active service for 20 more years . During that entire period of time , she retained Norfolk as her home port . She participated in numerous exercises both with the Second and Sixth fleets , and with units of North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations . The amphibious force flagship was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea on eight different occasions in those two decades ; and , in the summer of 1958 she served as flagship of the Commander , Middle East Force , during the Lebanon Crisis . In November 1959 , she served as communication and support ship to President Dwight D . Eisenhower during the Pakistan - Afghanistan - India leg of his visit to a number of European and Asian countries . When not deployed with the Sixth Fleet , she operated with the Second Fleet in the western Atlantic and in the Caribbean . The bulk of those operations consisted of exercises ; but , on one occasion in March 1957 , she carried President Eisenhower ' s limousines to Bermuda for his meeting with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan . In January 1963 , " Taconic " patrolled the Haitian coast during political unrest in that country . She returned to the Caribbean area for special duty again in May and June 1965 during similar troubles in the Dominican Republic . In January 1969 , at the beginning of her last year of service , " Taconic " was redesignated LCC - 17 . After 12 months of operations and preparations for decommissioning , the amphibious force flagship was placed out of commission , in reserve , on 17 December 1969 at Norfolk , Virginia . She was berthed with the National Defense Reserve Fleet on the James River , Virginia . She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 December 1976 and was sold for scrap to the Banty Corp on 6 April 1982 .