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The USS Fulton (AS-1) was a United States Navy submarine tender named for steamboat pioneer Robert Fulton.

She was built in Groton, Connecticut in 1914. From 1915 to 1922, the Fulton was based in New London, Connecticut, serving submarines along the Atlantic coast from Cape Cod to Cuba. From 1923 to 1925, she was assigned to Coco Solo in the Panama Canal Zone. She was decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1925.

Recommissioned in 1930, the Fulton returned to the Canal Zone as a surveying ship in 1931. The ship was then reassigned in 1932 to the Asiatic Fleet and saw duty in the South China Sea while based out of Hong Kong and Cavite in the Philippines. In 1934, a diesel engine fire severely damaged the ship, but the crew was evacuated safely. The ship was decommissioned at Cavite.