USS Shark (SS-8)
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USS Shark (left) and sister-ship USS Porpoise at New York, 1905
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| 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 |
| Struck: | 16 January 1922 |
| Fate: | Sunk as a target |
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| 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) |
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| Complement: | 7 |
| Armament: | 1 × 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tube |
The third USS Shark 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.
Over the next three and a half years, Shark operated locally at the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, conducting firing tests with torpedoes, and participating in early research and development efforts in the field of undersea warfare. Assigned to the First Submarine Flotilla in March 1907, Shark was stationed at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland in the spring of 1907.
Taken to the New York Navy Yard in April 1908, she was decommissioned there on the 21 April. Loaded onto the collier Caesar, Shark and her sister ship Porpoise comprised the auxiliary's deck cargo as she proceeded, via the Suez Canal, to the Philippines. Shark was launched soon after her arrival at Cavite in July and was recommissioned on 14 August 1908.
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