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Robert webber usn submarine1/14/2024 ![]() Returned to duty at Pearl Harbor from 7 May to 9 Juneįor Guam where she refitted submarines for the last patrols of the war. Was her station from 29 October 1943 until 17 March 1944Īnd then at Saipan until 25 April 1945. There she established a submarine baseĪnd in addition to refitting submarines between their warĪcted as tender to other types of ships. She was at Midway until 17 October Īnd at Brisbane from 9 November. She tended Pacificįleet submarines at Pearl Harbor from 15 March 1942 to 8 July Then returned to San Diego to prepare for Pacific duty. During the next month she established advanced seaplane Underway on her shakedown cruise out of San Diego when the JapaneseĪrriving 9 December. Of Robert Fulton and commissioned 12 September 1941 The fourth Fulton (AS-11 ) was launched 27 December 1940 by Mare Rescue of Yorktown survivors at WWII Battle of Midway The 1960's were spent as much of the 1950's were, supporting the Submarine forces based at New London, with occasinal sailings to Western Atlantic locales for operations.ĪS-11 Deployments - Major Events Add a AS-11 Shellback Initiation In late 1957 USS Fulton sailed on a North Atlantic deployment, participating in Operation Natoflex, and visiting ports of call Rothesay, Scotland, and Portland, England. Submarine force that was evolving from the diesel boats of WWII, through the stream lined Guppys to nuclear powered subs. She susequently spent the next six years on the Western side ot the North Atlantic, ranging from Iceland to the Carribbean, tending a U.S. Transiting the Panama Canal, Fulton arrived in her new home port of New London, CT in March 1951. ![]() With the Korean War, Fulton's services were again required. On 3 April 1947, at the Mare Island Navy Yard where she was constructed, Fulton was decommisioned and placed in reserve. When the testing concluded Fulton returned to the west coast. JFulton sailed to Bikini Atoll to support the submarines involved in the testing of Atomic bombs. for overhaul, then back to Pearl Harbor in early 1946. The end of the war in August 1945 had her returning to the U.S. During the last 16 months of World War II, Fulton went where needed - Pearl Harbor, Midway, Saipan and Guam. On a war time footing and based over seas for over three years (December 1941 to March 1944) Fulton sailed for re-fit on the West Coast of the United States.Īfter re-fit, USS Fulton resumed duties supporting the US Navy Submarine Force effort to finish off the Japanese. As the "front" of the war advance towards the Japanese home Islands, Uss Fulton advanced her station to Milne Bay, New Guinea, again providing any needed support from October 1943 to March 1944. Fulton spent nearly a year, Novemeber 1942 to October 1943 in Australia, providing maintenance and technical support to Allied naval commands. USS Fulton advanced to Midway Island in the Summer of 1942 and then on to Brisbane, Australia. USS Fulton carried Yorktown survivors to Pearl Harbor after the battle. The United States Carrier task force commanded by Admirals Flecther and Spruance defeated Admiral Yamamotos forces, but lost the U.S. submarine forces as they pressed forward against the Japanese with their initial war patrols. on 7 December, 1941, USS Fulon transited through Panama, Nicaragua and the Galapagos Islands, providing material support to US Naval installations and seaplanes bases.Īs 1942 progressed Fulton steamed from San Deigo to Pearl Harbor where she supported the U.S. Underway on off the West Coast of the U.S. She was launched, 27 December 1940 and after fitting out was commissioned USS Fulton (AS-11) on 12 September 1941. ![]() ![]() Fulton built the Nautilus, the first succesful submarine, while in France in the late 1790s.įulton's keel was laid in the Mare Island Naval Ship, north of San Francisco, California on 19 July 1939. USS Fulton was named for Robert Fulton (1765 - 1815) an American inventor credited with the development of the steamboat. USS FULTON was the first of the Fulton class submarine tenders built in the 1940s.
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