USS Mount Whitney; Viktor Lenac d.d.

USS Mount Whitney (LCC-20)

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).

PICTURES OF USSMW IN VIKTOR LENAC shipyard d.d. undergoing a scheduled maintenance overhaul:

The main HSE adviser for USSMW is Dragutin Šuker (HSE adviser/supervisor)