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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Impressive as the performance of the Skate may be in remaining submerged for 31 days [June 9], this is not the record. In the summer of 1945 the German sub U-977, fitted with a snorkel, ran submerged for 66 days while escaping to Argentina from Norway. CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN Los Altos, Calif...
...Skate did not have a snorkel -a fact which makes its record more impressive...
...Thames River to the New London (Conn.) naval base last week purred the black nuclear submarines Seawolf and Skate, home from record-breaking underwater trips. Seawolf, with 100 men aboard, had covered 10,200 miles submerged, stayed below one long stretch of 30 days, 5 minutes. Skate, with 95 men aboard, had gone 8,727 miles under water, beat Seawolf in an informal competition by staying down 31 days, 5 hours, 30 minutes. Throughout, Seawolf and Skate performed their secret missions in such a routine way that they won a "well done" from Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke. Said...
Even as Seawolf and Skate settled into their berths they were surrounded by signs of the Navy's growing nuclear potential. At the General Dynamics Electric Boat Division, the Navy launched Skipjack, the U.S.'s fifth nuclear submarine, a $60 million model with a special shark shape designed for high-speed underwater maneuverability. Abuilding on the ways was Triton, a giant-sized double-reactor, radar-picket submarine, biggest submarine ever built. Beyond that the Navy last week laid the keel of its third nuclear submarine designed specifically for mating in 1959-60 to the much-talked-about Polaris...
...offensive submarine program is in promising shape. Last week Skate, third U.S. operational atomic submarine, crossed the Atlantic east to west under water in 7 days 5 hr., sliced 20 hours off the old England-to-U.S. record set by Nautilus, became the first boat to complete an Atlantic underwater round trip...