USS Holland (AS-32)
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USS Holland (AS-32)
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| 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 |
| Struck: | 12 May 2000 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap 18 July 2013 |
| 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: | 2 x 5" |
USS Holland (AS-32) was a submarine tender launched by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Company in Pascagoula, Mississippi on 19 January 1963. The first ever built specifically to service Fleet Ballistic Missile submarines (SSBNs), she was sponsored by Mrs. John C. Stennis, wife of US Senator John C. Stennis and delivered to the Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, South Carolina. Holland was commissioned on 7 September 1963, with Captain Charles W. "Gin" Styer, Jr. in command.
Holland departed Charleston on 14 October for shakedown training at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, returning to Charleston on 19 November. She commenced post-shakedown availability on 25 November.
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 Rota, Spain. She arrived in Rota 1 April and relieved Proteus (AS-19) as the fleet submarine tender shortly thereafter. Holland continued her service to the Polaris submarines until relieved 4 November 1966. Holland arrived at Charleston 22 November. There, she tended submarines of the Atlantic Fleet into 1969. In March of that year she returned to Rota for another tour of duty.
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