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_off_Agana_Bay,_Guam,_on_1_August_1980_(6451565).jpg) USS Hunley (AS-31) off Guam in 1980
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Hunley (AS-31) |
| Namesake | Horace Lawson Hunley |
| Awarded | 16 November 1959 |
| Builder | Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company |
| Laid down | 28 November 1960 |
| Launched | 28 September 1961 |
| Commissioned | 16 June 1962 |
| Decommissioned | 30 September 1994 |
| Stricken | 3 May 1995 |
| Motto | We Serve to Preserve Peace |
| Fate | Sold for scrap 5 January 2007 |
| 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) |
| Propulsion | Diesel–electric |
| Speed | 18 kn (33 km/h) |
| Complement | 1,190 |
| Armament | 2 x 5" |
USS Hunley (AS-31) was a submarine tender of the United States Navy launched on 28 September 1961 and commissioned 16 June 1962. The Hunley was designed to tend most of the long-term requirements of the Polaris Class of submarines. The ship achieved several records and milestones in its service. The Hunley was decommissioned from the regular navy, in 1995 transferred to the US Maritime Commission, and in 2007 sold as scrap to a metal recycling company in Louisiana. In September 2008, during Hurricane Gustav, the decommissioned ship broke free of its moorings in the New Orleans Inner Harbor, but caused little or no damage while adrift.[1]
- ^ Coast Guard trying to secure a barge and two vessels in the Industrial Canal by Michelle Krupa, The Times-Picayune. 1 September 2008,