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Hunley (AS 31) Class: Photographs

These photographs were selected to show the original configuration of this class and major subsequent modifications. For more views see the former NHHC (now Hyperwar) Online Library of Selected Images and the NavSource Photo Archive.

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USS Hunley (AS 31)

Photographed by her builder, Newport News Shipbuilding, circa 1962. A prominent feature of this class was the large hammerhead crane for handling missiles, which was replaced with a pair of smaller cranes in later classes.

Photo No. Unknown
Source: Shipscribe

  USS Hunley (AS 31) circa 1962
USS Hunley (AS 31)

Underway in a photo dated 14 December 1962.

Photo No. NH 96829
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command

  USS Hunley (AS 31) in December 1962
USS Holland (AS 32)

Just after her launching on 19 January 1963 by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. Note the structure attached to the stern to protect the rudder and screw during launching.

Photo No. USN 1066203
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file)

  USS Holland (AS 32) on 19 January 1963
USS Holland (AS 32)

Fitting out on 1 August 1963 showing details of the hammerhead crane and a 3"/50 gun mount.

Photo No. BUSHIPS 166291, NAID 7576314
Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-19-NN, negatives)

  USS Holland (AS 32) on 1 August 1963
USS Holland (AS 32)

Photographed on 4 September 1963 enroute from the Ingalls shipyard to her commissioning at the Charleston (S.C.) Naval Shipyard.

Photo No. USN 711343
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file)

  USS Holland (AS 32) on 4 September 1963
USS Hunley (AS 31)

At the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on 10 January 1974 showing the two cranes like those in the later Simon Lake (AS 33) class that replaced her hammerhead crane and 12 of her 16 vertical storage tubes for Polaris missiles between them.

Photo No. Unknown
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command

  USS Hunley (AS 31) on 10 January 1974
USS Hunley (AS 31)

A view from overhead taken off Apra Harbor, Guam, in August 1981 showing her two cranes and the 16 missile storage tubes under them.

Photo No. DN-SC-90-07705
Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-330)

  USS Hunley (AS 31) in August 1981
USS Hunley (AS 31)

At Norfolk, Va., after the early 1980s with additional protection for the area under her flight deck.

Photo No. Unknown
Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command (L-file)

  USS Hunley (AS 31)
USS Hunley (AS 31)

Moored at the destroyer and submarine piers at Norfolk, Va., on 10 October 1988 with two Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarines moored on the north side of the pier. Photo by Don S. Montgomery.

Photo No. DN-ST-89-00328
Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-330)

  USS Hunley (AS 31) on 10 October 1988
USS Holland (AS 32)

Accompanying USS Forrestal (CV 59) to New York City on 28 April 1989 for Fleet Week '89.

Photo No. DN-SC-89-09247
Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-330)

  USS Holland (AS 32) on 28 April 1989
USS Holland (AS 32)

In Apra Harbor, Guam, in September 1993.

Photo No. DN-SC-94-00413
Source: U.S. National Archives (RG-330)

  USS Holland (AS 32) in September 1993