Specifications:

 

  • USS SHARK (SSN 591) PatchKeel Laid: 24 FEB 1958
  • Launched: 16 MAR 1960
  • In Service: 16 SEP 1960
  • Initial Criticality: 29 SEP 1960
  • Builders Trials: 06 JAN 1961
  • Preliminary Acceptance Trials: 23 JAN 1961
  • Commissioned: 09 FEB 1961
  • Inactivation: 11 OCT 1989
  • Decommissioned: 15 SEP 1990
  • Stricken: 15 SEP 1990
  • Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, VA
  • Propulsion system: one S5W nuclear reactor
  • Screw: one
  • Length: 252 ft (77 meters)
  • Beam: 32 ft (10 meters)
  • Draft: 30 ft (9.1 meters)
  • Displacement, surfaced: approx. 2880 tons
  • Displacement, submerged: approx. 3500 tons 
  • Speed: Surfaced: in excess of 16 knots
  • Speed: Submerged: in excess of 30 knots
  • Armament: six x 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
  • Crew: 11 Officers, 71 Enlisted

 

Sources: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, www.navysite.de