AS-36 L Y Spear

USS L. Y. SPEAR was the first ship in the L. Y. SPEAR - class of submarine tenders designed and fitted to accommodate attack submarines and service up to four submarines moored alongside simultaneously. The L. Y. SPEARS was the first ship in the Navy to bear the name.

Decommissioned on September 6, 1996, and stricken from the Navy list on May 3, 1999, the L. Y. SPEAR spent the following years laid up at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Va. In July 2010, she was sold for scrapping to ESCO Marine of Brownsville, Tx.

General Characteristics: Awarded: May 12, 1965
Keel laid: May 5, 1966
Launched: September 7, 1967
Commissioned: February 22, 1970
Decommissioned: September 6, 1996
Builder: General Dynamics' Quincy Shipbuilding Division, Quincy, Mass.
Propulsion System: two boilers, steam turbines, one shaft
Propellers: one
Length: 643 feet (196 meters)
Beam: 85 feet (25.9 meters)
Draft: 29 feet (8.8 meters)
Displacement: approx. 23,300 tons
Speed: 20 knots
Armament: two 40mm guns, four 20mm guns
Crew: 87 officers, 1,235 enlisted

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