The USS Skipjack (SSN-585) – the lead boat was named after the Skipjack tuna – was also the first nuclear submarine to utilize a single shaft, while the placement of the bow planes on the sail ...

At 447 feet and 5,963 tons, USS Triton, SSN-585 was the largest U.S. submarine to date, but by the time she was in commission in 1959, advances in airborne detection systems had rendered her ...