USS Skate (SSN-578)
Skate with an ice pack behind her | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Skate |
| Ordered | 18 July 1955 |
| Builder | Electric Boat |
| Laid down | 21 July 1955 |
| Launched | 16 May 1957 |
| Sponsored by | Mrs Lewis L. Strauss |
| 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 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Skate-class submarine |
| Displacement |
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| Length | 267 ft 7 in (81.56 m) |
| Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Propulsion | S3W reactor |
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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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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.