USS Auburn (AGC-10) was a Mount McKinley-class amphibious force command ship, named after Mount Auburn

Mount Auburn

Mount Auburn is the name of several places in the United States:*Mount Auburn, Illinois*Mount Auburn Township, Illinois*Mount Auburn, Indiana*Mount Auburn, Iowa*Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts*Mount Auburn Historic District in Cincinnati, Ohio...

, northwest of Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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. She was designed as an amphibious force flagship

Flagship

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, a floating command post with advanced communications equipment and extensive combat information spaces to be used by the amphibious forces commander and landing

Landing

thumb|A [[Mute Swan]] alighting. Note the ruffled feathers on top of the wings indicate that the swan is flying at the [[Stall |stall]]ing speed...

 force commander during large-scale operations.
Laid down as Katkay under a Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1351) on 14 August 1943 at Wilmington, N.C.

Wilmington, North Carolina

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, by the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company

North Carolina Shipbuilding Company

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; launched on 19 October 1943; sponsored by Miss Julia Raney; acquired by the Navy on 31 January 1944; converted at Hoboken, New Jersey

Hoboken, New Jersey

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, New Jersey, N.J., by the Bethlehem Steel Co., for naval service as an amphibious force flagship; renamed Auburn and designated AGC-10; and placed in commission at Hoboken, New Jersey on 20 July 1944, Capt.