USS Jack (SS-259)
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Jack.
USS Jack (SS-259), a Gato-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the jack (any of various fishes—young pike, green pike or pickerel, or large California rockfish).
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United States | |
Name | USS Jack |
Builder | Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut[1] |
Laid down | 2 February 1942[1] |
Launched | 16 October 1942[1] |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Frances Seely |
Commissioned | 6 January 1943[1] |
Decommissioned | 8 June 1946[1] |
Recommissioned | 20 December 1957[1] |
Decommissioned | 21 April 1958[1] |
Stricken | 1 September 1967[1] |
Identification | SS-259 |
Fate | Transferred to Greece, 21 April 1958[2] |
Greece | |
Name | Amfitriti |
Acquired | 21 April 1958 |
Identification | S-17 |
Fate | Returned to the U.S. Navy, 1967 and sunk as a target 5 September 1967[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Gato-class diesel-electric submarine[2] |
Displacement | |
Length | 311 ft 9 in (95.02 m)[2] |
Beam | 27 ft 3 in (8.31 m)[2] |
Draft | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) maximum[2] |
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Speed | |
Range | 11,000 nmi (20,000 km) surfaced at 10 kn (19 km/h)[5] |
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Test depth | 300 ft (90 m)[5] |
Complement | 6 officers, 54 enlisted[5] |
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