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The Holy Loch (Scottish Gaelic: An Loch Sianta/Seunta) is a sea loch, part of the Firth of Clyde, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The "Holy Loch" name is believed to date from the 6th century, when Saint Munn landed there after leaving Ireland. Kilmun Parish Church and Argyll Mausoleum is said to stand where Saint Munn's church was once located.
The site was a deep, sheltered anchorage which had been a British submarine base during World War II, with the Submarine Depot Ship HMS Forth serving as a support unit for submarines training in the Clyde. [6] From the latter half of 1978 until November 1991, USS Will Rogers (SSBN-659) was forward deployed at Site One.
Cold War; The United States of America maintained a US Navy base during the Cold War, in the Holy Loch, off the Firth. Submarine Squadron 14 or SUBRON14, also known as Site one, Holy Loch was in operation between 1 July 1958, up until the end of the Cold War. The last deployed Submarine Tender departed the Holy Loch and Firth on 3 March 1992. [124]
U.S. submarine base. Sandbank was the site of the shore facilities of the U.S. Navy submarine base in the Holy Loch from 1961 to 1992, part of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. [3] It was, for thirty years, until the end of the Cold War, the home port of the U.S. Navy's Submarine Squadron 14.
Holy Loch Submarine Base (1942–1945) in Scotland (1961 to 1992) Naval Station Rota (1964-1979) at Rota, Spain; Naval Support Activity La Maddalena, La Maddalena, Italy on Santo Stefano Island (1972–2008), advanced submarine base; St. Thomas Submarine Base on U.S. Virgin Islands at Gregerie Channel next to the air station. [16]
HMNB Clyde lies on the eastern shore of Gare Loch in Argyll and Bute, to the north of the Firth of Clyde and 25 mi (40 km) west of Glasgow. The submarine base encompasses a number of separate sites, the primary two being: Faslane, 25 miles from Glasgow; RNAD Coulport, beside Loch Long, 2 mi (3.2 km) west of Faslane.
Naval Base Brisbane, Australia, Sub Base, repair depot, Camp Seabee; Naval Base Sydney in Sydney, Australia hospital, ... Holy Loch Missile base, (1961-?) England
Campbeltown Airport (Scottish Gaelic: Port-adhair Cheann Loch Chille Chiarain) (IATA: CAL, ICAO: EGEC) is located at Machrihanish, 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) west of Campbeltown, near the tip of the Kintyre peninsula in Argyll and Bute on the west coast of Scotland.