uss skipjack (ssn-585) info book

Electric Boat-Built
U.S.S. SKIPJACK
(SSN-585)
INFO BOOK
Arnold A. Putnam, Editor
Engineering & Planning Department
Training, Code 200T
NAVSHIPYD PTSMH
2004
USS SKIPJACK (SSN-585) was developed from USS ALBACORE (AGSS-569) design and
USS NAUTILUS (SSN-571) nuclear propulsion research.
Engine Room
AUX
Machine
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Reactor
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Control Room
Torpedo
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The U.S. Navy last week released a sketch of its latest attempt to outEngineer nature, a missile shaped thing named “Skipjack.” Unlike its
Deep-sea associate, the feared killer whale (see above), Skipjack carries
the forward diving fins on a dorsal “sail,” thus preserving the “ideal” hull
and “increasing the finesse of underwater flying” for her single-belted
pilot. First of a new series of seven atomic-powered craft to be built by the
Electric Boat Division of the general Dynamics Corp. at new London,
Conn., Skipjack when launched will be faster than the atomic but
conventionally shaped Nautilus, and far more maneuverable than the
streamlined but diesel-engined Albacore. Her likely speed: above 25 knots.
TIME Magazine
March 23, 1959
Volume 7
Pages 74 & 76
,
The NEW YORK TIMES
Monday, April 13, 1959
Page 1, column 7, page 8 column 3
PORTLAND SUNDAY TELEGRAM, February 11, 1962
The PORTSMOUTH PERISCOPE
From the SKIPJACK design, SCORPION was picked off and a Polaris missile compartment put in.
This was renamed USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (SSBN 598). USS THRESHER (SSN-593)
was picked off and redesigned into, what would become, the 594-Class submarines. Both the
GEORGE WASHINGTON and THRESHER ford the basis for today’s SSBN and SSN fleet.