USS Frank Cable (AS-40)

 military, submarine, United States Navy

USS Frank Cable is the second member of the Emory S. Land Class of Submarine Tenders built for the US Navy, laid down at the Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company at Seattle, WA in March of 1976 and commissioned into service with the US Atlantic Fleet in October of 1979.

Initially assigned to Naval Station Charleston to support boats of the Sturgeon and Benjamin Franklin Classes operating with the Atlantic Fleet , the Cable was redeployed to replace the USS Holland (AS-32) in the Western Pacific as Commander Seventh Fleet's mobile repair and support platform in 1996. Homeported at Naval Station Guam thereafter, the Cable now tends to the three Los Angeles Class Attack Submarines homeported as part of Naval Forces Marianas as well as any visiting US Navy or foreign Submarines calling at Guam.

www.cable.navy.mil/
www.msc.navy.mil/inventory/ships.asp?ship=202
www.navsource.org/archives/09/36/3640.htm