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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Holland |
| Builder | Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington |
| Launched | 12 April 1926 |
| Decommissioned | 21 March 1947 |
| Reclassified | ARG-18, 30 August 1945 |
| Stricken | 18 June 1952 |
| Honors and awards | 2 battle stars and Navy Unit Commendation (World War II) |
| Fate | Sold for scrap, 3 October 1953 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Submarine tender |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 483 ft 8 in (147.42 m) |
| Beam | 61 ft 1 in (18.62 m) |
| Draft | 16 ft 9 in (5.11 m) |
| Installed power | 7,000 shp (5,220 kW) |
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| Speed | 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Complement | 388 |
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USS Holland (AS-3) was a submarine tender that served in the United States Navy before and during World War II. Holland was launched by the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington on 12 April 1926, sponsored by Miss Elizabeth Saunders Chase, daughter of Admiral J. V. Chase, and commissioned on 1 June. Stationed at San Diego, California, tending submarine divisions there with periodic tours to Panama to service submarines based at the Canal Zone pre-World War two. Later serving in the Pacific theatre, by close of hostilities having given 55 instances of refit to submarines, provided repair and service to 20 surface craft and completed various jobs on shore installations.
She shifted to San Pedro Submarine Base, for inactivation overhaul in the Terminal Island Navy Yard, then was towed to San Diego where she was decommissioned on 21 March 1947. She was assigned to the San Diego, California, group of the Pacific Reserve Fleet until her name was struck from the Navy Register on 18 June 1952. Her hull was sold for scrapping on 3 October 1953 to the Bethlehem Steel Corporation.