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{{Tenure|rank={{LieutUS}}|name=Paul Baxter Dungan|nick=Paul B. Dungan|appt=before 1 January, 1905{{USOfficerReg1905|p. 198}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{EnsUS}}|name=Ralph Frederic Wood|nick=Ralph F. Wood|appt=5 July, 1911{{USOfficerReg1914|p. 58}}|as=Captain of U.S.S. A-7}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LieutUS}}|name=Lloyd Stowell Shapley|nick=Lloyd S. Shapley|appt=1905{{USOfficerReg1906|p. 32}}{{USOfficerReg1905|p. 198}}|end=1907{{USOfficerReg1907|p. 30}}{{USOfficerReg1908|p. 34}}}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LtJGUS}}|name=Hartwell Clarence Davis|nick=Hartwell Clarence Davis|appt=12 July, 1913{{USOfficerReg1917|p. 60}}|as=Captain of U.S.S. A-7}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LieutUS}}|name=Guy Wilkinson Stuart Castle|nick=Guy W. S. Castle|appt=1907{{USOfficerReg1908|p. 34}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{EnsUS}}|name=Charles Moulding Yates|nick=Charles M. Yates|appt=1911{{USOfficerReg1912|p. 54}}|end=after 1 January, 1913{{USOfficerReg1913|p. 252}}}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{EnsUS}}|name=Ralph Frederic Wood|nick=Ralph F. Wood|appt=before 1 January, 1914{{USOfficerReg1914|p. 58}}|end=1915{{USOfficerReg1915|p. 58}}{{USOfficerReg1916|p. 56}}|as=Captain of U.S.S. A-7}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LtJGUS}}|name=William Middleton Quigley|nick=William M. Quigley|appt=1915{{USOfficerReg1915|p. 58}}{{USOfficerReg1916|p. 56}}|end=1916|as=Captain of U.S.S. A-7}}
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{{Tenure|rank={{LieutUS}}|name=Arnold Marcus|nick=Arnold Marcus|appt=early 1917|end=24 July, 1917|as=Captain of U.S.S. A-7|note=mortally injured by explosion while in command}}
 
{{Tenure|rank={{LieutUS}}|name=Arnold Marcus|nick=Arnold Marcus|appt=early 1917|end=24 July, 1917|as=Captain of U.S.S. A-7|note=mortally injured by explosion while in command}}
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Latest revision as of 19:00, 24 February 2022

U.S.S. Shark (1901)
Hull Number: SS-8
Builder: Crescent Shipyard[1]
Laid down: 11 Jan, 1901
Launched: 19 Oct, 1901[2]
Commissioned: 19 Sep, 1903
Decommissioned: 12 Dec, 1919
Stricken: 16 Jan, 1922[3]
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U.S.S. Shark was one of seven Plunger (or "A") class submarines completed for the U.S. Navy.

Service

Shark was commissioned, along with sister Porpoise on 19 September, 1903 at New Suffolk, New York with Lieutenant Charles P. Nelson in command of both.

She was redesignated A-7 on 17 November, 1911.

In 1916, all the "A" class boats but A-1 were stationed in the Philippines in Manila Bay along with all three "B" class boats, their crews living aboard their tenders Monadnock and Mohican.[4]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 127.
  2. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 127.
  3. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921. p. 127.
  4. Estimates Submitted to the Secretary of the Navy, Volume II, 1916. p. 1553.
  5. Register of Officers, 1905. p. 198.
  6. Register of Officers, 1906. p. 32.
  7. Register of Officers, 1905. p. 198.
  8. Register of Officers, 1907. p. 30.
  9. Register of Officers, 1908. p. 34.
  10. Register of Officers, 1908. p. 34.
  11. Register of Officers, 1912. p. 54.
  12. Register of Officers, 1913. p. 252.
  13. Register of Officers, 1914. p. 58.
  14. Register of Officers, 1915. p. 58.
  15. Register of Officers, 1916. p. 56.
  16. Register of Officers, 1915. p. 58.
  17. Register of Officers, 1916. p. 56.
  18. Register of Officers, 1916. p. 56.
  19. Register of Officers, 1917. p. 60.

Bibliography


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