United States Navy submarine bases

On 16 October 1900, the USS Holland departed for her first port, United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland for crew training.

Annapolis being a training center was not designated a submarine base, though the USS Holland was stationed there.

The Holland Torpedo Boat Company of New York City contracted Union Iron Works to build the two Plunger-class submarines.

For three and half years the two submarines operated out of Mare Island Naval Shipyard in San Francisco Bay for training and testing.

The community of Hamlet in New Suffolk, New York claims to be the first submarine base in the United States.

Seven submarines built by the Holland Torpedo Boat Company were stationed at Hamlet.

[5] Due to the Japanese hostilities in China and the South Pacific in 1939 the US Congress approved plans for building submarine bases and seaplane bases at Dutch Harbor Alaska, Kodiak, Alaska, Midway Atoll, and Wake Island.

[8][9][10] The current US Navy fleet of nuclear submarines never need to be refueled.

Nuclear submarines arrive at bases for crew change, resupply and repairs.

Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in Camden County, Georgia in April 2001
Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut , looking north in a 1968 aerial view
Plaque stating New Suffolk, New York 's claim to be the first submarine base.
USS Canopus with all six members of Submarine Division 17 in Apra Harbor , Guam , October 1924
USS Canopus (AS-9) in 1932 with S-37 ; S-40 ; S-36 ; S-38 ; S-41 ; S-39 at Naval Base Cavite