USS Mackerel (SST-1)
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| Namesake: | As Mackerel: The mackerel, a sport and game fish |
| Builder: | General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut |
| Laid down: | 1 April 1952 |
| Launched: | 17 July 1953 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Charles R. Muir |
| Commissioned: | 9 October 1953 |
| Decommissioned: | 31 January 1973 |
| In service: | 9 October 1953, as USS T-1 (SST-1) |
| Renamed: | USS Mackerel (SST-1), 15 July 1956 |
| Reclassified: | From auxiliary submarine (AGSS-570) to training submarine (SST-1) prior to commissioning |
| Struck: | 31 January 1973 |
| Fate: | Sunk as target 18 October 1978 |
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| Class and type: | T-1-class training submarine |
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| Length: | 131 ft 3 in (40 m) |
| Beam: | 13 ft 7 in (4.14 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Propulsion: | diesel-electric, single screw |
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| Complement: | 2 officers, 12 enlisted men |
| Armament: | 1 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tube |
USS Mackerel (SST-1), originally known as USS T-1 (SST-1), was the lead ship of the T-1-class of training submarines. She was the second submarine of the United States Navy named for the mackerel, a common food and sport fish, and was in service from 1953 to 1973. She was one of the smallest operational submarines ever built for the U.S. Navy.
T-1 was originally planned as an experimental auxiliary submarine with hull number AGSS-570, but she was redesignated as a training submarine (SST-1) and her hull number was changed to SST-1. She was laid down on 1 April 1952, at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation at Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 17 July 1953, sponsored by Mrs. Charles R. Muir, and placed in non-commissioned service as USS T-1 on 9 October 1953, with Lieutenant J. M. Snyder, Jr., in command.
After completing sea trials in the New London, and Massachusetts Bay areas, T-1 departed in February 1954 for Key West, Florida. Arriving at Key West, she commenced operations with submarine and antisubmarine forces in the areas of southern Florida and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, providing services to the Fleet Training Group working up recently constructed and recently overhauled antisubmarine warships.
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