USS Savannah (AS-8)

Savannah with three S-class submarines alongside, in December 1924
History
United States
Builder	Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, Flensburg, Germany
Launched	18 April 1899
Acquired	seized 1917
Commissioned	3 November 1917
Decommissioned	26 June 1934
Renamed	AS-8 on 15 September 1933
Stricken	26 June 1934
Fate	sold on 26 September 1934 to Mider & Marcus of Seattle, Washington, for mercantile service Renamed Orbis in 1942 Scrapped in Japan, 1954
General characteristics
Displacement	10,800 tons
Length	414 ft 6 in (126.34 m)
Beam	46 ft 1 in (14.05 m)
Draft	26 ft 5 in (8.05 m)
Complement	275 officers and enlisted
Armament	four 5-inch guns

USS Savannah (Id. No. 3015)^[1] (later designated AS-8) was a submarine tender in the United States Navy in World War I and the years after. She was launched 18 April 1899 as a German commercial freighter SS Saxonia, but was seized by the United States in 1917 and renamed Savannah. In 1933, the ship was renamed USS AS-8 to allow USS Savannah to have the Savannah name.