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USS Skate (SSN-578)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Skate.
USS Skate (SSN-578) was the third submarine of the United States Navy named for the skate, a type of ray, was the lead ship of the Skate class of nuclear submarines. She was the third nuclear submarine commissioned, the first to make a completely submerged trans-Atlantic crossing, the second submarine to reach the North Pole, and the first to surface there.
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Name | USS Skate |
Ordered | 18 July 1955 |
Builder | Electric Boat |
Laid down | 21 July 1955[1] |
Launched | 16 May 1957[1] |
Sponsored by | Mrs Lewis L. Strauss[1] |
Commissioned | 23 December 1957 |
Decommissioned | 12 September 1986 |
Stricken | 30 October 1986 |
Homeport | New London, Connecticut, Submarine Tender USS Fulton (AS-11) |
Fate | Disposed of by submarine recycling 6 March 1995 |
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Class and type | Skate-class submarine |
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Length | 267 ft 7 in (81.56 m) |
Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
Propulsion | S3W reactor[2] |
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Complement | 8 officers and 76 men |
Armament | 8× 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes (6 forward, 2 aft) |
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