{"id":58543,"date":"2020-01-01T00:02:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T00:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2020\/01\/01\/the-us-navys-aging-submarine-support-ship-frank-cable-completes-sea-trials\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:19:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:19:48","slug":"the-us-navys-aging-submarine-support-ship-frank-cable-completes-sea-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/naval\/2020\/01\/01\/the-us-navys-aging-submarine-support-ship-frank-cable-completes-sea-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Navy\u2019s aging submarine support ship Frank Cable completes sea trials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Navy\u2019s aging Guam-based submarine tender Frank Cable completed sea trials Dec. 19, even as<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/naval\/2019\/12\/24\/white-house-poised-to-blow-up-us-navys-plans-to-recapitalize-its-aging-sealift-ships\/\" target=\"_blank\"> the White House canceled plans <\/a>for its eventual replacement over cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 40-year-old ship completed a yearlong overhaul in December with sea trials to shake out the cobwebs and retrain the crew, according to a Dec. 26 Navy release. The main focus of the overhaul was boiler repair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDecember has been a very busy and productive month for our team,\u201d Capt. Jeff Bierley, commanding officer of Frank Cable, said in the release. \u201cThe ship and crew performed extremely well on sea trials, and it was great to get our ship to sea for the first time in over a year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/naval\/2018\/11\/12\/us-army-warns-of-crippling-sealift-shortfalls-during-wartime\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1_cover_larter-story.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">US Army warns of crippling sealift shortfalls during wartime<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The U.S. Army is troubled by a looming sealift shortfall that will create \u201cunacceptable risk in force projection\u201d within the next five years if the Navy doesn\u2019t act quickly.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ship, which was commissioned in 1979, was originally designed as a support ship for Los Angeles-class attack submarines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Navy has considered replacing its two submarine tenders with new auxiliary ships that use a common hull, known as the Common Hull Auxilliary Multi-Mission Platform, or CHAMP. But the White House\u2019s Office of Management and Budget directed the Navy to look at alternatives for the CHAMP program after the cost estimate for the submarine tender variant hit $1.3 billion, according to a memo obtained by Defense News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe CHAMP submarine tender and CHAMP sealift vessels are not cost-effective solutions. The revised estimate for the sub tender ($1.3 billion) is even more than the $1 billion in the FYDP [Future Years Defense Program] and more cost-effective alternatives should be explored, including procuring and converting a used vessel,\u201d the memo read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The submarine tender Frank Cable is back in action after more than a year undergoing repairs to its boilers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":115693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":16,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[160,16,36],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3361],"class_list":["post-58543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-naval","category-newsletters"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"R4U3DGESVZFW5N7NJFRHOCVIEA","arc_canonical_url":"\/naval\/2020\/01\/01\/the-us-navys-aging-submarine-support-ship-frank-cable-completes-sea-trials\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The US Navy\u2019s aging submarine support ship Frank Cable completes sea trials - Defense News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The submarine tender Frank Cable is back in action after more than a year undergoing repairs to its boilers.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The US Navy\u2019s aging submarine support ship Frank Cable completes sea trials\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The submarine tender Frank Cable is back in action after more than a year undergoing repairs to its boilers.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/naval\/2020\/01\/01\/the-us-navys-aging-submarine-support-ship-frank-cable-completes-sea-trials\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Defense News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-01T00:02:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-08T00:19:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"David B. 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