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This website is dedicated to the Crew of the Skipjack whose standards and performance were instrumental in helping to win the Cold War. The Skipjack was the first of her class and the first of a new style of Submarine which now silently patrol the world's oceans.
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Following shakedown in the Atlantic and Caribbean and post-shakedown repairs at New London, CT, USS SKIPJACK (SS-184) was assigned to SubRon6 and departed...
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Submarine Force Library, Museum and Gift Shop. Home of the Historic Ship Nautilus, the Worlds first nuclear Submarine as well as Gift Shop with Extensive Submarine Memorabilia - Shop Online! Admission & Parking are Free! Submarines have fascinated people from Alexander the Great to the Beatles, from Jules Verne to...
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USS Skipjack (SSN-585), the lead ship of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named after the...
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USS Skipjack (SS-184), a Salmon-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named after the fish. Her keel was laid down by the...
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The first submarine class to combine nuclear power with the new hull design was the USS Skipjack. USS Skipjack was also unique in that it was the first nuclear submarine with a single shaft. Placement of the bow planes on the sail greatly reduced flow noise at the bow-mounted sonar.
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Skipjack Class Submarine: Laid down, 29 May 1956, at General Dynamics Corp., Electric Boat Division, Groton, CT.; Launched, 26 May 1958; Commissioned, USS Skipjack (SSN-585), 15 April 1959; Decommissioned, and Struck from the Naval Register, 19 April 1990;
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Encyclopedia: USS Skipjack
Three submarines of the United States Navy have been named 'USS Skipjack after the type of fish; Skipjack tuna. •The 1st Skipjack (SS-24) was renamed E-1. •The 2nd Skipjack (SS-184) was a Salmon-class...
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USS SKIPJACK was the first ship in a series of six nuclear-powered attack submarines and the second ship in the Navy to bear the name.
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The second Skipjack (SSN-585) was laid down on 29 May 1956 by General Dynamios Corp., Electric Boat Division, Groton, Conn., launched on 26 May 1958, sponsored by Mrs. George H. Mahon, wife of the United States Representative from the 19th District of Texas;
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