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TENDER TALES - Submarine Tenders of the United States Navy.
Submarine Tenders - a GlobalSecurity.org history page.
USS Camden (AS-6) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center Camden photo page; USS Camden (AS-6) In San Pedro Harbor, California, 1921. Submarines alongside are (from outboard to inboard): USS R-1 (SS-78); USS R-3 (SS-80); USS R-8 (SS-85); USS R-4 (SS-81); USS R-2 (SS-79); andUSS R-10 (SS-87).
USS Savannah (AS-8) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center Savannah photo page; USS Savannah (AS-8) At Portland, Oregon, during the 1920s. Submarines alongside are (from left to right): S-27 (SS-132), S-29 (SS-134) and S-25 (SS-130).
USS Savannah (AS-8) Photos - contributed by R. H. Vincent.
USS Canopus (AS-9) - Unexpected Heroes: The Men of the USS Canopus (AS-9) and the Ship the Enemy Couldn’t Sink. A nice Canopus site by Larry Smith.
USS Proteus (AS–19) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center Proteus photo page; Proteus recommissioned 8 July 1960, and after shakedown at Guantanamo Bay, she accomplished her first SSBN refit 20 January-21 February at New London. She then crossed to Holy Loch, Scotland arriving 3 March 1961. There for the next two years she completed 38 refits.....
USS Hunley (AS-31) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center Hunley photo page. Moored in Holy Loch, Scotland in April, 1966, with USS THOMAS A. EDISON (SSBN-610) alongside.
USS Hunley (AS-31), 1962-1994 - a U.S. Navy Historical Center Hunley photo page; .....she was based at Holy Loch, Scotland, and Charleston, South Carolina, during 1963-67. Over the next twelve years, she was the SSBN tender at Guam and at Charleston, with time out in 1971-72 to be fitted to handle the larger Poseidon missiles. The ship was again stationed at Holy.....
Horace Lawson Hunley the man and Hunley (AS-31) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center Hunley DANFS narrative page.; ..... a Polaris milestone was reached in December 1965 when THOMAS A. EDISON came alongside to commence the 100th refit of an SSBN by Hunley. This signified that one hundred SSBN submarines had gone out on time from Hunley and not one of them had to make an early return from patrol.....
USS Simon Lake (AS-33) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center Simon Lake photo page. USS Los Alamos (AFDB-7) at Holy Loch, Scotland, with a ballistic missile submarine inside, circa the 1980s. USS Simon Lake (AS-33) is on the left .
USS Canopus (AS-34) - named for the second-brightest star in the Heavens, USS Canopus is a Submarine Tender, taking care of Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) Submarines. Another nice Canopus site by Larry Smith.
USS Observation Island (EAG–154) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center DANFS narrative page.