Engineering:Submarine base
A submarine base is a military base that shelters submarines and their personnel.
Examples of present-day submarine bases include HMNB Clyde, Île Longue (the base for France 's Force océanique stratégique), Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Naval Submarine Base New London, and Rybachiy Nuclear Submarine Base (near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky).[1][2]
INS Vajrabahu and INS Satavahana are the submarine bases of the Indian Navy. A new underground submarine base, INS Varsha is under construction near Vishakhapatnam for the new expanding fleet of Indian nuclear submarines.[3][4][5]
The Israeli navy bases its growing submarine force in Haifa.[6]
Former submarine bases include DORA 1, missing name, Naval Submarine Base Bangor (now part of Naval Base Kitsap), Mare Island Naval Shipyard (a nuclear-capable base), Ordnance Island in Bermuda during World War II, and the formerly-classified Soviet base at Balaklava in the now Autonomous Republic of Crimea.[7][8][9]
The Holland Torpedo Boat Station at hamlet of New Suffolk, New York claims to be the first submarine base in the United States : it served as the base for missing name, a submarine launched in May 1897 and several Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. submarines launched 1901–1903.[10]
However, the United States Navy claims Naval Submarine Base New London was the Navy's first submarine base, having been so designated in 1916.[11] [12]
See also
- Submarine pen
- List of countries operating submarines
- United States Navy submarine bases
- Shore facility
- Airbase
- Naval base
- Loss of Strength Gradient
Gallery
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HMNB Clyde -
Naval Station Pearl Harbor -
Naval Base Guam -
Naval Station Norfolk -
Naval Base Point Loma -
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard with missing name in 1917, the first submarine built by a US Navy shipyard -
USS Holland (AS-3) tending submarines at Fremantle submarine base, Australia, on 5 March 1942 -
Naval Submarine Base Bangor with tug Mishawaka (rear left) and three other Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. tugs guiding the missing name out of dry dock at Delta Pier -
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German type VII and IX U-boats at Trondheim after the war on 19 May 1945
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References
- ↑ "Resolution". Global Security. http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/uk/resolution.htm.
- ↑ Ardouin-Dumazet, Victor-Eugène (1895). "Les Îles de l'Atlantique: 2. D'Hoëdic à Ouessant" (in fr). Voyages en France. Parigi: Berger-Levrault. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k73539j/f319.image.
- ↑ "Indian Naval Bases". Global Security. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/india/ports.htm.
- ↑ "INS Satavahana | Indian Navy". http://indiannavy.nic.in/content/ins-satavahana.
- ↑ "Undersea warfare: Surfacing now, navy's biggest batch of submariners : India, News – India Today". http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/undersea-warfare-surfacing-now-navys-biggest-batch-of-submariners/1/556654.html.
- ↑ "Israel Submarine Capabilities". https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/israel-submarine-capabilities/.
- ↑ "Naval Base Kitsap". United States Navy. http://www.cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrnw/installations/navbase_kitsap.html.
- ↑ Sergei R. Grinevetsky, et al. ” The Black Sea Encyclopedia”, Springer, 2014: 80–81.
- ↑ "Аргументы Недели. Крым" (in ru). https://an-crimea.ru/page/news/178768.
- ↑ "First Submarine Base Historical Marker". https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=175636.
- ↑ "Naval Submarine Base New London, Connecticut" (in en-US). https://www.navymwrnewlondon.com.
- ↑ "Naval Submarine Base New London, Connecticut" (in en-US). https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/organization-and-administration/installations/sub-base-new-london.html.
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