High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Catamount (LSD-17) was a Casa Grande-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy, named in honor of the Catamount Tavern in Old Bennington, which served as headquarters for Ethan Allen`s Green Mountain Boys while making their plans against the New Yorkers and the British. The Catamount was also the meetingplace of Vermont`s only form of government then: the Vermont Council of Safety.