Submarine Tenders...

[Henson]

Originally Posted by LoBlo

That's interesting to know.

I thought that sub tenders job was to replenish weapons and store to a sub while on patrol. Its interesting that a sub can't be replenished until it returns to port.

lb

Well, you're kind of right. What a tender really is is an entire shore maintenance activity, but packed in on a ship. All of the repair shops, electircal shops, welders, etc. that would normally service a boat in port are stationed on this mobile platform. The tender then can meet boats when they pull into foreign ports so that a boat based in San Diego doesn't have to travel all the way back to the states when they break in SE Asia, but they can be met in Japan, Malaysia or Singapore instead. Less transit time=more time on station.