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USS
SKATE SSN-578 |
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The USS Skate was the first nuclear
submarine overhauled at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. It was the third nuclear submarine
commissioned and the first to make a completely submerged trans-Atlantic crossing. It was
the second submarine to reach the North Pole and the first to surface there. USS Skate was
decommissioned at Pearl Harbor in the summer of 1986 after 29 years of naval service.
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