U.S.S. Shark (1901)

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U.S.S. Shark (1901)
Hull Number: SS-8
Builder: Crescent Shipyard[1]
Laid down: 11 Jan, 1901
Launched: 19 Oct, 1901[2]
Commissioned: 19 Sep, 1903
Decommissioned: 12 Dec, 1919
Stricken: 16 Jan, 1922[3]
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U.S.S. Shark was one of seven Plunger (or "A") class submarines completed for the U.S. Navy. She commissioned, along with sister Porpoise on 19 September, 1903 at New Suffolk, New York with Lieutenant Charles P. Nelson in joint command.

She was redesignated A-7 on 17 November, 1911.

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Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 127.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 127.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 127.
  4. Register of Officers, 1907. p. 30.
  5. Register of Officers, 1914. p. 58.

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Plunger Class Submarine
Plunger Adder Grampus Moccasin Pike
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