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AS-37 Dixon

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation - Navy Expeditionary Medal
Bottom Row - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon (3) - National Defense Service Medal - Southwest Asia Service Medal
L. Y. Spear Class Submarine Tender:
  • Laid down, 7 September 1967, at General Dynamics Corp., Quincy, MA.
  • Launched, 20 June 1970
  • Commissioned USS Dixon (AS-37), 7 August 1971, CAPT. D. S. Boyd, USN
  • Decommissioned, 15 December 1995
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 18 March 1996
  • Laid up at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Portsmouth, VA.
  • Final Disposition, sunk as a target, 21 July 2003, Location: 031° 16' 17.9" North, 073° 57' 46.2" West Depth: 2805 fathoms
    Specifications:
    Displacement 14,362 t.(lt) 23,396 t. (fl)
    Length 643'
    Beam 85'
    Draft 29'
    Speed 18 kts.
    Complement 1,112
    Armament two twin 20mm gun mounts
    Propulsion two boilers, steam turbine, single shaft
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    Dixon 93k Dixon (AS-37) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, January 1974    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Dixon 43k Dixon (AS-37) tending submarines at Diego Garcia, date unknown. Contributed by Dave Gibson to
    Randy Guttery's
    Tendertales web site
    Samuel Gompers 55k Dixon (AS-37) and Samuel Gompers (AD-37) side by side at Diego Garcia. After a 60-day deployment Samuel Gompers turned over the job of Indian Ocean fleet repairs to Dixon, date unknown.
    US Navy photo by PH3 Book.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Dixon 28k Dixon (AS-37) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Courtesy Randy Guttery
    Tendertales web site
    Dixon 84k Dixon (AS-37) tending submarines at Sub Base San Diego, circa 1977-79 Photo by Dr. Kenneth Hartman
    Dixon 53k Dixon (AS-37) tending submarines at Sub Base San Diego, date unknown. Robert Hall USS Tidewater
    Dixon 66k Dixon (AS-37) underway, date and location unknown. Robert Hall USS Tidewater
    YTB-826 2469k Dixon (AS-37) in her berth at Sub Base San Diego, 1 July 1982. In the foreground the large harbor tug Washtucna (YTB-826) nudges the Los Angeles class nuclear-powered attack submarine La Jolla (SSN-701) into her berth outboard of the 594 class attack submarine Plunger (SSN-595). .
    DVIC photo # DN-ST-83-10231 by PH2 Randy Hays.    		 Defense Visual Information Center
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