USS Shark (SS-174)

Shark, just after launch
History
Name:	USS Shark
Builder:	Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut
Laid down:	24 October 1933
Launched:	21 May 1935
Commissioned:	25 January 1936
Fate:	Probably sunk by Japanese destroyer Yamakaze east of Manado, 11 February 1942
General characteristics
Class and type:	Porpoise-class diesel-electric submarine
Displacement:	1,316 long tons (1,337 t) standard, surfaced 1,968 long tons (2,000 t) submerged
Length:	287 ft (87 m) (waterline), 298 ft (91 m) (overall)
Beam:	25 ft .75 in (7.6391 m)
Draft:	13 ft 9 in (4.19 m)
Propulsion:	(as built) 4 × Winton Model 16-201A 16-cylinder two-cyclediesel engines, 1,300 hp (970 kW) each, driving electrical generators through reduction gears 2 × 120-cell Exide VL31B batteries 4 × high-speed Elliott electric motors, 3 × General Motors six-cylinder four-cycle 6-228 auxiliary diesels (re-engined 1942) 4 × GM two-cycle Model 12-278A diesels, 1,200 hp (890 kW) each two shafts 4,300 shp (3,200 kW) surfaced 2,085 shp (1,555 kW) submerged
Speed:	19.5 kn (22.4 mph; 36.1 km/h) surfaced 8.25 kn (9.49 mph; 15.28 km/h) submerged
Range:	6,000 nmi (6,900 mi; 11,000 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) 21,000 nmi (24,000 mi; 39,000 km) at 10 kn (12 mph; 19 km/h) with fuel in the main ballast tanks
Endurance:	10 hours at 5 kn (5.8 mph; 9.3 km/h) 36 hours at minimum speed
Test depth:	250 ft (76 m)
Capacity:	85,946–86,675 US gal (325,340–328,100 l)
Complement:	5 officers, 49 enlisted
Armament:	6 × 21 in (530 mm) torpedo tubes (four forward, two aft, 16 torpedoes) 1 × 4 in (100 mm)/50 cal deck gun 2 × 0.30 in (7.6 mm) machine guns

USS Shark (SS-174) was a Porpoise-class submarine, the fifth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the shark. Her keel was laid down by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut, on 24 October 1933. She was launched on 21 May 1935 (sponsored by Miss Ruth Ellen Lonergan, 12-year-old daughter of United States Senator Augustine Lonergan of Connecticut), and commissioned on 25 January 1936, Lieutenant C.J. Carter in command.

Following shakedown in the North Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea, Shark transited the Panama Canal and arrived at San Diego, California on 4 March 1937. She spent the next year and one-half in training exercises and Army-Navy war problems as a unit of Submarine Squadron 6 (SubRon 6). Following a regular overhaul at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, Shark got underway from San Diego on 16 December 1938 bound for Pearl Harbor and reassignment to SubRon 4.

Following two years of operations in the Hawaii area, Shark set sail from Pearl Harbor on 3 December 1940 to join the Asiatic Fleet based at Manila, where she engaged in fleet tactics and exercises until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Departing Manila on 9 December 1941, under command of Louis Shane, Jr. (USNA Class of 1926), she was at sea during the Japanese bombing raids on Manila the next day. For the next week, Shark patrolled Tayabas Bay until ordered back to Manila on 19 December to embark Admiral Thomas C. Hart, Commander-in-Chief, Asiatic Fleet, for transportation to Soerabaja, Java.