USS Pontotoc (AK-206/AG-94/AVS-7) was an Alamosa-class cargo ship acquired by the US Navy shortly before the end of World War II.

Pontotoc was laid down for the US Maritime Commission (MARCOM), MC hull 2160, by Leathem D. Smith Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, 15 January 1944; classified AK-206 on 25 February 1944; launched 2 July 1944; acquired from MARCOM on a loan-charter basis 28 February 1945; reclassified AG–94 on 12 March 1945; and commissioned 22 March 1945.

[3] After shakedown, Pontotoc transited the Panama Canal and arrived Pearl Harbor 18 April 1945.

She decommissioned and was delivered to the War Shipping Administration (WSA) 26 April 1946, at San Francisco, California.

[3] She was sold 14 August 1947, to the French firm Messageries Maritimes, and renamed Taurus.