History | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Seadragon |
Awarded | 29 September 1955 |
Builder | Portsmouth Naval Shipyard |
Laid down | 20 June 1956 |
Launched | 16 August 1958 |
Commissioned | 5 December 1959 |
Decommissioned | 12 June 1984 |
Stricken | 30 April 1986 |
Fate | Submarine recycling program |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Skate-class submarine |
Displacement |
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Length | 268 ft (82 m) |
Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
Draft | 22 ft 5 in (6.83 m) |
Propulsion | S4W reactor plant (S3W reactor) |
Speed | 20 knots (23 mph; 37 km/h)+ |
Complement | 95 officers and men |
Armament | 8 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes (6 forward, 2 aft) |
USS Seadragon (SSN-584), a Skate-class submarine, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the seadragon, a name for some types of seahorse. She was a nuclear-powered submarine.