Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Several ship of the United States Navy have been named USS Adirondack, after the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Adirondack was a gunboat in the American Civil War that sank off the Bahamas, and whose wreck is visited by scuba diverss. A passenger steamer Adirondack was commissioned into the Navy in 1917 and used as a floating barracks until 1919, when she was returned to the owner. The Adirondack (AGC-15) was an amphibious force flagship in service in 1945 to 1955. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.