USS Holland (AS-32)
USS Holland (AS-32)
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Holland (AS-32) |
Namesake | John Philip Holland |
Awarded | 31 August 1961 |
Builder | Ingalls Shipbuilding Company |
Laid down | 5 March 1962 |
Launched | 19 January 1963 |
Acquired | 30 August 1963 |
Commissioned | 7 September 1963 |
Decommissioned | 30 September 1996 |
Stricken | 12 May 2000 |
Fate | Sold for scrap 18 July 2013 [1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Hunley-class submarine tender |
Displacement | 19,000 tons |
Length | 599 ft (183 m) |
Beam | 83 ft (25 m) |
Draft | 23 ft 4 in (7.11 m) |
Speed | 18 knots |
Complement | 1,190 |
Armament | None |
USS Holland was a submarine tender in service with the United States Navy from 1963 to 1996.
History
USS Holland (AS-32) was a
Holland departed Charleston on 14 October for shakedown training at
While Holland was neither a submersible nor a combatant ship, she was a vital link in support of the United States first line of deterrence, the Navy's Polaris missile. She contained a complete machine shop and was capable of making any submarine repair other than major overhaul, including servicing and maintaining the nuclear power plants of Polaris-equipped submarines.
The opening of 1964 found Holland at Charleston, South Carolina, making preparations for deployment to the Polaris replenishment anchorage at
From November 1974 to June 1975 Holland underwent a conversion overhaul at the
From November 1975 to January 1982 she served Submarine Squadron 14 at Holy Loch, Scotland. She was a key contributor along with Irish, British and other naval ships in the rescue of racing yachts caught in a severe storm during the 1979 Fastnet Race.
Holland was decommissioned on 30 September 1996 and moored with the
, and on 10 July 2013 was moved into dry dock at Mare Island for cleaning before being towed to Texas for scrapping. She has since been disassembled.-
USS Holland at Apra Harbor, Guam, in 1993.
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USS Holland at Hong Kong in 1993.
References
- ^ https://www.transportation.gov/fastlane/reserve-ship-uss-holland-leaves-suisun-bay [dead link]
- ^ Adcock, Al. U.S. Ballistic Missile Submarines (Carrolltown, Texas: Squadron Signal, 1993), p. 22. Adcock, p. 4, also credits mythical interwar Albacore and Trout classes, however.