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Submarines - U.S.A
"Skate" Class
Commissioned: 4 units - 1957
- 1959
Displacement, tons: 2310 light,
- 2360 full load.
Dimensions, meters: 81,5 x
7,6 x 6,7
Toerpedo tubes: 8 x 533mm,
- 6 bow, 2 stern.
Propulsion: Nuclear, 6600 shp,
2 shafts.
Speed: 20+ surfaced, - 25+
dived.
USS "Skate" SSN 578
Photographed off Puerto Cabello,
Venezuela, - Nov. 30. 1975
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
USS "Skate" SSN 578
Photographed off Puerto Cabello,
Venezuela, - Nov. 30. 1975
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
This is a famous submarine.
USS "Skate" is the first of the first production
model class nuclear submarines, - but smaller than the even more famous
prototype, - the USS "Nautilus" with a displacement of 2980/3520 tons light/full
load.
But "Skate" holds the record of being the
first submarine to cross the Atlantic Ocean completely submerged with a
sealed atmosphere.
Also she won fame in maritime history by
passing under the ice of the North Pole and later she became the first
submarine to actually surface at the North Pole by crashing through
the ice.
"Skipjack" Class
- unknown, - photographed off
Florida 1982 -
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
"Sturgeon" Class
- unknown, - photographed off
Florida in 1982 -
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
"Sturgeon" Class
- unknown, - photographed off
Balboa, Panama, in 1982 -
(Photography by Karsten Petersen ©)
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Page initiated: Oct.05.2008
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