USS Shark (SS-8)

USS Shark (SS-8)
History
United States
Name	USS Shark
Builder	Crescent Shipyard Elizabeth, New Jersey
Laid down	11 January 1901
Launched	19 October 1901
Commissioned	19 September 1903
Decommissioned	12 December 1919
Stricken	16 January 1922
Fate	Sunk as a target
General characteristics
Class and type	Plunger-class submarine
Displacement	107 long tons (109 t)
Length	64 ft (20 m)
Beam	12 ft (3.7 m)
Draft	11 ft (3.4 m)
Speed	8 kn (9.2 mph; 15 km/h) surfaced 7 kn (8.1 mph; 13 km/h) submerged
Complement	7
Armament	1 × 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tube

USS Shark (SS-8) was the third vessel of the U.S. Navy to bear the name. She was an early Plunger-class submarine in the service of the United States Navy, later renamed as A-7.

Shark was laid down on 11 January 1901 at Elizabethport, New Jersey in the Crescent Shipyard under the direction of Crescent's superintendent, Arthur Leopold Busch. She was launched on 19 October 1901, and commissioned on 19 September 1903 at New Suffolk, New York with Lieutenant Charles P. Nelson in command.