A US Navy submarine commander has been fired after he hired ten prostitutes to party in his hotel room.

Captain Travis Zettel, of the USS Bremerton, paid for the women while his submarine was on a “farewell” tour of the Philippines last March.

2 Travis Zettel, left, has been relieved of his command of the sub Credit: US Navy

The commander is said to have bragged to two sailors at a hotel pool that he’d “ordered ten girls to arrive at the hotel,” according to the Kitsap Sun.

At the time the sub was docked at Subic Bay in the country.

One of the sailors then saw around ten “provocatively dressed” women outside the hotel entrance later that evening.

The commander’s boasting was then reported to Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents.

When confronted about the allegations, Zettel admitted to investigators he had paid for “female accompaniment”.

During the same tour, another sailor was seen with three “local females holding onto his arm as he was wandering around”.

A criminal probe was launched in May.

Zettel was relieved of his command in August last year after the Navy cited a loss of confidence in his command but did not go into detail for the reasons why.

He has now been reassigned to Submarine Squadron 19 at the naval base Kitsap-Bangor in Washington state but it has not been revealed what position he holds.

The other sailor spotted with the three women has not been named and did not face any disciplinary action.

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Zettel became the commander of the Bremerton in August 2016.

At the time he said: "Becoming the 15th commanding officer of the now 35-year-old 'American classic' is a proud moment for me and my family."

At the time, the USS Bremerton was the olderst sub in the Navy fleet with 37 years of service.

Earlier this month, Joseph Fetterman, who worked as a US Navy counsellor was found to be supplementing his naval pay with cash from a prostitution ring that he and his wife operated, according to papers released by the Oaklahoma County District Attorney's Office.

In August last year, the Navy Times revealed a number of US Navy chief petty officers had been caught up in an investigation into Bahrain's sex trade.

2 The USS Bremerton was in the Philippines when the incident happened Credit: Alamy