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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.
SSN-578 Electric Boat: 21 July 1955 16 May 1957 23 December 1957 12 September 1986 28.7 Recycled March 1995 Swordfish: SSN-579 Portsmouth Naval Shipyard: 25 January 1956 27 August 1957 15 September 1958 2 June 1989 30.4 Recycled September 1995 Sargo: SSN-583 Mare Island Naval Shipyard: 21 February 1956 10 October 1957 1 October 1958 21 April ...
Skipjack′s keel was laid down on 29 May 1956 by the Electric Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corporation at Groton, Connecticut.She was launched on 26 May 1958, sponsored by Helen Mahon, wife of Representative George H. Mahon from the 19th District of Texas, and commissioned on 15 April 1959 with Commander W. W. Behrens, Jr., in command.
James Francis Calvert (September 8, 1920 – June 3, 2009) served in the United States Navy, where he commanded USS Skate, the third nuclear submarine commissioned and the second submarine to reach the North Pole, which became the first to surface at the pole.
Halibut firing a Regulus missile next to the aircraft carrier Lexington, 25 March 1960. Halibut was originally designed under project SCB 137 as a diesel-electric submarine, but was completed with nuclear power under SCB 137A.
USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine and on 3 August 1958 became the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole.
"The Fear-Makers", an episode in the 1964 season of the television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, is inspired by the loss of the USS Thresher. Anthony Wilson, a writer for the series, was fascinated by the loss of the USS Thresher (and with 'fear gas' as an incapacitating chemical weapon aboard the submarines, an agent similar to the ...
The third USS Skate (SSN-578), the lead ship of her class of nuclear attack submarines, saw action during the Cold War List of ships with the same or similar names This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names.