Sea Shadow (IX-529)

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Sea Shadow (IX-529)

Sea Shadow sailing through Californian waters near San Francisco in March 1999
History
United States
Name	Sea Shadow
Awarded	22 October 1982
Builder	Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company
Completed	1984
Acquired	1 March 1985
Out of service	September 2006
Stricken	September 2006
Fate	Scrapped in 2012
General characteristics
Type	Stealth ship
Displacement	563 long tons (572 t)
Length	164 ft (50 m)
Beam	68 ft (21 m)
Draft	15 ft (4.6 m)
Propulsion	Diesel-electric
Speed	14.2 knots (26.3 km/h; 16.3 mph)
Complement	4
Armament	None

Sea Shadow (IX-529) was an experimental stealth ship built by Lockheed for the United States Navy to determine how a low radar profile might be achieved and to test high-stability hull configurations that have been used in oceanographic ships.