USS Beaver (AS-5)
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USS Beaver (AS-5) at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, in 1920.
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| Name: | USS Beaver |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company |
| Cost: | $1,300,000 (hull and machinery) |
| Acquired: | 1 July 1918 from the San Francisco & Portland Steamship Co. |
| Commissioned: | 1 October 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | 17 July 1946 |
| Struck: | 15 August 1946 |
| Fate: | sold 28 August 1950 |
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| Type: | Submarine tender |
| Displacement: | 5,970 long tons (6,070 t) |
| Length: | 380 ft (120 m) |
| Beam: | 47 ft (14 m) |
| Draft: | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
| Speed: | 16.5 kn (19.0 mph; 30.6 km/h) |
| Complement: | 373 officers and enlisted |
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USS Beaver (AS-5) was a submarine tender which served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1946.
USS Beaver (AS-5) was built in 1910 as a steel-hulled, single-screw, freight and passenger at Newport News, Virginia, by the Newport News Shipbuilding Co. for the Union Pacific Railroad Company. She was purchased from the San Francisco & Portland Steamship Co. on 1 July 1918 for service in the U.S. Navy during World War I and given the classification Id. No. 2302. She was converted to a submarine tender at the Mare Island Navy Yard and was commissioned there on 1 October 1918, Lieutenant Commander James A. Logan in command.
To prepare her to serve as mobile repair and maintenance facility for submarine squadrons, the yard workers installed a machine shop, electrical plant, battery shop, and refrigerator units inside the ship. Since her duties included providing boat services to submarines, the tender carried four motor launches, three motor boats, and five smaller craft.
Assigned to the Pacific Station, her first service was to escort four of the newly constructed O-class submarines (O-boats) from San Pedro, California, to Coco Solo in the Canal Zone. There she was assigned as tender to Submarine Division 14 (SubDiv 14). At this time, because diesel submarines had limited range and were prone to engine failures, their operations were generally confined to the coastal waters off American submarine bases. Before the war, there was only one submarine tender in commission and only three submarine bases in operation: one at New London, Connecticut; another at San Pedro, California, and the third at Coco Solo in Panama.
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