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USS Mackerel (SS-204), the lead ship of her class of submarines, was the first ship of the United States Navy named for the mackerel. Mackerel and her near-sister Marlin (designed and built by Portsmouth Navy Yard) were prototype small submarines which the Navy was exploring to replace the aging S-class submarines.
Known as "pig boats", or "boats", due to foul living quarters and unusual hull shape. O-11 through O-16 (built by Lake Torpedo Boat Company) also known as the "modified O-class". Modified boats proved to be disappointing and were scrapped in 1930; Lake went out of business in 1925.
USS Mackerel (SST-1), originally known as USS T-1 (SST-1), was the lead ship of the T-1-class of training submarines. She was the second submarine of the United States Navy named for the mackerel , a common food and sport fish , and was in service from 1953 to 1973.
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Lead boat of a class of 3 SS-18 Grayling / D-2: SS-19 Salmon / D-3: SS-19½ Seal / G-1: Lead boat of a class of 4 SS-20 Carp / F-1: Lead boat of a class of 4. Lost in collision on 17 Dec 1917. SS-21 Barracuda / F-2: SSN-21 Seawolf: Lead boat of a class of three. Commissioned 1997 SS-22 Pickerel / F-3: SSN-22 Connecticut: Second of three Seawolf ...
The Mackerel-class submarines were a pair of experimental prototype submarines built just prior to World War II and launched in 1940 and 1941. The two submarines were similar in size and capability to the S-class submarines built at the end of World War I, and had been ordered to test the feasibility of using mass production techniques to build small submarines.
Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name Mackerel, after the Mackerel, a name given to a number of species of fish: English ship Mackerel (1646) was a dogger captured in 1646 and last recorded in 1647. HMS Mackerel (1804) was a 4-gun Ballahoo-class schooner launched in 1804 and sold in 1815.
America was built on the lines of Mary Taylor (1849) America 1851, by James Bard. America was designed by James Rich Steers and George Steers (1820–1856) (See George Steers and Co). Traditional "cod-head-and-mackerel-tail" design gave boats a blunt bow and a sharp stern with the widest point (the beam) placed