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Auxiliary Ship: Submarine

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How the Tenders are listed: The Navy didn't start using the Two letter - Number designation system until July, 1920. Before that - ships were just referred to by their name - and type (like USS Yosemite, Screw Steamer -- or USS Tallahassee, Monitor No. 9).

To make things as simple as possible - we've arranged the ships into two historical sections: Ships that served with a primary assignment of Submarine Tender - but for various reasons were never designated as an AS - are listed first - by date of first Sub Tender service.

All ships that carried an AS designation at any time in their service history - are listed following - in AS number order.
Click on a Hull Number or Ships Name to goto that ship's page (data, history and pictures)
Name Era Status Years as
Tender**
USS Hist 1903-1908 Decommissioned, Sold 1
USS Fortune 1903-1907
1908-1912		 Decommissioned, Sold 8
USS Niņa 1906-1910 Lost at Sea, All hands presumed dead 4
USS Elcano 1908-1910 Decommissioned, Sunk as TargetV 3
USS Castine 1908-1913 Decommissioned, Sold 5
USS Dixie 1909-1914 Decommissioned, Sold 5
USS Tonopah 1909-1919 Decommissioned, Sold 2
USS Mohican 1909-1914 Decommissioned, Sold 4
USS Severn 1910-1913 Decommissioned, Sold 3
USS Tallahassee 1910-1919 Decommissioned, Sold 1
USS Yosemite 1911-1912 Decommissioned, Sold 2 Months
USS Monadnock 1912-1919 Decommissioned, Sold 7
USS Cheyenne 1913-1919 Decommissioned, Sold 6
USS Ozark 1913-1919 Decommissioned, Sold 6
USS Potomac 1915- Decommissioned, Sold <1
USS St. Louis 1916-1917 Decommissioned, Sold 1
USS Charleston 1917-1918 Decommissioned, Sold 1
USS Monterey 1917-1921 Decommissioned, Sold 3
USS Hannibal 1919-1920 Decommissioned, Sunk as Target 2
USS Chicago 1919-1923 Decommissioned,
Floundered, Lost at sea. 		4
USS Chewink 1920-1931, 1940-1945 Decommissioned, Sunk as Target 6
USS Finch 1921-1924 Lost to enemy action 3
USS Curlew 5/1922-1923 Lost in Shipwreck 1
USS Ortolan 5/1922-1929 Decommissioned, Sold 5
USS Seagul 6/1922-1941 Decommissioned, Sold 1
USS Quail 9/1922 - 1924 Scuttled 5 May 1942 1
USS Ajax 1/1923-1923 Decommissioned, Sold 1
USS Falcon 1/1926-1946 Decommissioned, Sold 20
USS Pigeon 12/1941 Sank by Japanese dive bomber attack 4 Months in Hell
USS Coucal 6/1943- Decommissioned, Sunk as Target <1
Modern Fleet Tenders - Tenders that carried the AS designation
Hull # Name Era Status Years as
Tender** 		Missing
History***
AS 1 USS Fulton 1915-1925 Decommissioned, Sold 10
AS 2 USS Bushnell 1916-1937 Decommissioned, Disposed 22
AS 3 USS Holland 1926-1945 Decommissioned, Disposed 19
AS 4 USS Alert 1912-1922 Decommissioned, Disposed 10
AS 5 USS Beaver 1918-1945 Decommissioned, Disposed 27
AS 6 USS Camden 1919-1931 Decommissioned, Disposed 12
AS 7 USS Rainbow 1910-1918 Decommissioned, Disposed 8
AS 8 USS Savannah 1917-1926 Decommissioned, Sold 9
AS 9 USS Canopus 1922-1942 Scuttled 1942 20
AS 10 USS Argonne 1924-1934 Decommissioned, Disposed 10
AS 11 USS Fulton 1941-1946
1951-1991 		Decommissioned, Disposed 45
AS 12 USS Sperry 1942-1982 Decommissioned, Holding at Suisun 40
AS 13 USS Griffin 1941-1945 Decommissioned, Disposed 4
AS 14 USS Pelias 1941-1945 Decommissioned, Disposed 4
AS-15 USS Bushnell 1943-1947
1952-1980 		Decommissioned, Sunk as Target 32
AS-16 USS H. W. Gilmore 1944-1980 Decommissioned, Scrapped 36
AS-17 USS Nereus 1945-1971 Decommissioned, Holding at Suisun 26
AS-18 USS Orion 1943-1993 Decommissioned, Scrapped 50
AS-19 USS Proteus 1944-1947
1947-1959
1960-1992 		Decommissioned,
redesignated IX-518 berthing barge, Scrapped		 48****
AS-20 USS Otus 1941-1945 Decommissioned, Sold 4
AS-21 Antaeus 1941-1942 Decommissioned, Disposed 1
AS-22 USS Euryale 1944-1946 Decommissioned, Disposed 2
AS-23 USS Aegir 1944-1945 Decommissioned, Disposed 2
AS-24 USS Anthedon 1944-1946 Decommissioned, Sold to Turkey 2
AS-25 USS Apollo 1944-1946 Decommissioned, Disposed 2
AS-26 USS Clytie 1945-1946 Decommissioned, ? 1
AS-27-
AS-30 		AS 27 - AS 30 were converted and built as ADs (Destroyer Tenders)
AS-31 USS Hunley 1963-1994 Decommissioned, Scrapped 31
AS-32 USS Holland 1963-1996 Decommissioned, holding at Suisun 33
AS-33 USS Simon Lake 1965-1999 Inactivated, Processing at Norfolk NSY 34
AS-34 USS Canopus 1966-1994 Decommissioned, Teeside for scrapping 28 1986-1990
AS-35 Cancelled in 1964
AS-36 USS L.Y. Spear 1970-1996 Decommissioned, Reserve Portsmouth 26 1970-1996
AS-37 USS Dixon 1971-1995 Sunk as Target, 21 July 2003 24
AS-38 Cancelled in 1969
AS-39 USS Emory S. Land 1978- Active 21
AS-40 USS Frank Cable 1980- Active 19
AS-41 USS McKee 1981-1999 Inactive - undergoing layup at Norfolk 18
**Years with primary job as Submarine Tender - every Naval Vessel has collateral duties. Several ships have incomplete histories - so their "tour" as a Submarine Tender may be in error.
***The history / Service record is incomplete for the period indicated - we would appreciate accurate data from anyone who can supply it - and certainly want to thank those who have already supplied missing data for many of these ships.
****AS-19 spent the 12 years 1947 - 1959 while in "De-commissioned but Active Service" supporting submarines at the New London Boat docks. She was converted to a berthing barge and designated IX-518 in 1994 - and served another 5 years. She was Inactivated once again and towed to the Reserve Fleet at Suisun (Bencia, CA) 9/99. She was scrapped in at ESCO Marine, Brownsvilled TX 2007.
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