Fulton-class submarine tender explained

-- warship classes --> Ship Image: USS Fulton (AS-11) underway in the Atlantic Ocean on 6 December 1984 (6391550).jpg Ship Caption: Fulton (AS-11), 1984 Builders: Mare Island Navy Yard Moore Dry Dock Company, Oakland, CA Operators: US Navy Built Range: 1939 1945 In Commission Range: 1941 1993 Total Ships Completed: 7 Total Ships Active: 0 Total Ships Scrapped: 7 Ship Type: submarine tender Ship Displacement: 9250LT Ship Length: 530feet Ship Beam: 73feet Ship Draft: 22feet Ship Speed: 15.4lk=inNaNlk=in Ship Complement: 1,307 officers and enlisted Ship Armament: 4 × 5inches guns Ship Notes: Stats from Fulton

The Fulton class was a class of seven United States Navy submarine tenders. The class took its name from the lead ship,, which was commissioned 27 December 1940 by Mare Island Navy Yard and sponsored by Mrs. A. T. Sutcliffe, great-granddaughter of Robert Fulton. Fulton was commissioned on 12 September 1941.^[1] The basic hull and superstructure for this class was the same as the Dixie-class destroyer tenders and Vulcan-class repair ships.

Ships in class

Ships in class

Ship Name	Hull No.	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned/Recommissioned	Decommissioned	Link
	AS-11	Mare Island Navy Yard	19 July 1939	27 December 1940	12 September 1941	3 April 1947	DANFS,
					10 April 1951	30 September 1991
	AS-12		1 February 1941	17 December 1941	1 May 1942	30 September 1982	DANFS,
	AS-15		23 December 1941	14 September 1942	10 April 1943	30 April 1948	DANFS,
					1 February 1953	30 June 1970
	AS-16		21 December 1942	16 September 1943	24 May 1944	30 September 1980	DANFS,
	AS-17		12 October 1943	12 February 1945	27 October 1945	27 October 1971	DANFS,
	AS-18	Moore Dry Dock Company	31 July 1941	24 June 1942	30 September 1943	3 September 1993	DANFS,
	AS-19		15 September 1941	12 November 1942	31 January 1944	26 September 1947	DANFS,
					8 July 1960	30 September 1992

In 1959-1960, Proteus was converted to a tender for the Polaris Fleet Ballistic Missile submarines, including the addition of a 13.4 m section amidships. All ships of this class have been decommissioned and scrapped.

See also

• Norwalk Class Cargo Ships

External links

• Submarine tender photo gallery index at NavSource.org

Notes and References

1. Fulton IV.