USS Frank Cable marks a decade in Guam

APRA HARBOR, Guam—The USS Frank Cable celebrated her 10th year in Guam on April 11 with a cake-cutting ceremony in her newly renovated galley, “Club Mocambo.”

Commissioned Feb. 5, 1980, Frank Cable spent her first 16 years repairing submarines from her Charleston, S.C., homeport. In 1996, she was scheduled to be decommissioned but was soon reactivated, refitted and permanently forward-deployed to Guam to replace USS Holland as U.S. Seventh Fleet’s mobile repair and support platform.

As U.S. Pacific Fleet’s only submarine tender, Frank Cable readily deploys throughout the Western Pacific to such ports as South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan to provide services to both submarines and surface ships in the Seventh Fleet area of responsibility.

For more information about Frank Cable, visit the ship’s Web site at www.cable.navy.mil. (PR)