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The submarine is owned and operated by the Pacific Fleet Submarine Memorial Association, and is now part of the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park in Pearl Harbor, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Visitors can tour the submarine with an audio narration of life in the vessel during World War II .
USS Kamehameha (SSBN-642) was a Benjamin Franklin-class ballistic missile submarine and the only ship in the United States Navy to be named after Kamehameha I, the first King of Hawaii (c. 1758–1819). She is one of only two United States ships named after a monarch. a She was later reclassified as an attack submarine and re-designated SSN-642.
Subsequent 48-passenger submarines were launched in Kona, Maui, and Oahu on the Hawaiian Islands, and in Guam, Aruba, and Mexico during this period. In 1994, a 64-passenger submarine was designed and built for Oahu in Hawaii, which is, to this day, the largest tourist submarine in the world.
USS Hawaii (SSN-776), a Virginia-class submarine, is the first commissioned warship of the United States Navy to be named for the 50th state. (A previous large cruiser, or battlecruiser , USS Hawaii (CB-3) was launched, but never commissioned, and was named after the Territory of Hawaii .)
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USS Emory S. Land (AS-39) is a United States Navy submarine tender and the lead ship of her class.She was named for Admiral Emory S. Land.. The ship provides food, electricity, water, consumables, spare parts, medical, dental, disbursing, mail, legal services, ordnance, and any parts or equipment repair that a submarine may require.
The submarine departed Pearl Harbor for her first three-month operational patrol on 27 October 2010. The location of her first deployment was not disclosed by the Navy. [13] In May 2012, Texas underwent a scheduled 20-month-long overhaul at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii. [14] [15] [16]
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