Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short description Template:For 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).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
INS Virbahu, 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.<ref name=gs-bases>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The Israeli navy bases its growing submarine force in Haifa.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Former submarine bases include DORA 1, Template:HMAS, 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.<ref name=NBK>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Sergei R. Grinevetsky, et al. ” The Black Sea Encyclopedia”, Springer, 2014: 80–81.</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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 Template:USS, a submarine launched in May 1897 and several Template:Sclass submarines launched 1901–1903.<ref name="auto">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
However, the United States Navy claims Naval Submarine Base New London was the Navy's first submarine base, having been so designated in 1916.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
See alsoEdit
- Submarine pen
- List of countries operating submarines
- United States Navy submarine bases
- Shore facility
- Airbase
- Naval base
- Loss of Strength Gradient
GalleryEdit
- New Suffolk Sub Memorial.JPG
Holland Torpedo Boat Station Plaque stating New Suffolk, New York's claim to be the first submarine base.
- HMNB Clyde.jpg
- Ford Island aerial photo RIMPAC 1986.JPEG
- US Navy 060920-N-0000X-001 An aerial view of U.S. Naval Base Guam Sept. 20, 2006. Naval Base Guam supports the U.S. Pacific Fleet.jpg
- 9 Flattops at Norfolk naval base, December 20, 2012.jpg
- NavBasePointLoma.jpg
- Anoriant submarine.jpg
Keroman III submarine pen, part of the former German submarine base in Lorient, Brittany.
- USS-L8.jpg
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard with Template:USS in 1917, the first submarine built by a US Navy shipyard
- USS Holland (AS-3) tending submarines at Fremantle, Australia, on 5 March 1942 (AWM 302625).jpg
USS Holland (AS-3) tending submarines at Fremantle submarine base, Australia, on 5 March 1942
- Four Natick class hardor tugs guide USS Ohio (SSBN-726) out of drydock.jpg
Naval Submarine Base Bangor with tug Mishawaka (rear left) and three other Template:Sclass tugs guiding the Template:USS out of dry dock at Delta Pier
- Captured German U-boats outside their pen at Trondheim in Norway, 19 May 1945. BU6382.jpg
German type VII and IX U-boats at Trondheim after the war on 19 May 1945