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&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Skate_(SS-305)_off_the_Mare_Island_Naval_Shipyard_on_28_July_1943.jpg) Skate in July 1943
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Namesake | Skate (fish) |
| Builder | Mare Island Naval Shipyard[1] |
| Laid down | 1 August 1942[1] |
| Launched | 4 March 1943[1] |
| Commissioned | 15 April 1943[1] |
| Decommissioned | 11 December 1946[1] |
| Stricken | 21 October 1948[2] |
| Fate | Sunk as a target off Southern California coast, 5 October 1948[2] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Balao-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 311 ft 10 in (95.05 m) (95.0 m)[2] |
| Beam | 27 ft 4 in (8.33 m)[2] |
| Draft | 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) maximum[2] |
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| Speed | |
| Range | 11,000 nautical miles (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 knots (19 km/h)[6] |
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| Test depth | 400 feet (120 m)[6] |
| Complement | 10 officers, 70–71 enlisted[6] |
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USS Skate (SS-305) was a Balao-class submarine in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946. She was used as a target ship in the 1946 atomic bomb tests and finally sunk as a target ship in October 1948.
- ^ a b c d e Friedman, Norman (1995). U.S. Submarines Through 1945: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute. pp. 285–304. ISBN 1-55750-263-3.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 275–280. ISBN 0-313-26202-0.
- ^ a b c d e Bauer, K. Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775–1990: Major Combatants. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. pp. 271–280. ISBN 978-0-313-26202-9.
- ^ U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 261–263
- ^ a b c U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311
- ^ a b c d e f U.S. Submarines Through 1945 pp. 305–311