Template:Ship box USS Shark (SS-8)

[edit] USS Shark, A-7

• Designation: Submarine Torpedo Boat No. 8, SS-8
• Builders:  United States (Crescent Shipyard in Elizabethport, New Jersey
• Laid down: 11 January 1901
• Launched: 19 October 1901 (List)
• Operator:  United States Navy
• Commissioned: 19 September 1903 (List)
• Decommissioned: 12 December 1919 (List)
• Status: Target ship
• Operations: Torpedo and other trials, Manila Bay patrols