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SKIPJACK CLASS SUBMARINE
The Skipjack class submarines were the
first truly modern postwar submarines of the U.S. Navy.
The class was an example of how innovative new
technologies can combine to produce a weapons system
with vastly improved characteristics.
While the
USS Nautilus was a one-of-a-kind, proof-of-concept boat,
the Skipjack submarines, with their improved S5W reactors, brought
real nuclear power to the bulk of the fleet.
Real
useable nuclear power is not the only thing historic for
the Skipjack submarine class.
Six years before the operation of the USS Skipjack, in 1953,
the Navy introduced a new experimental
USS Albacore
which had a new
teardrop-shaped hull. The symmetrical, tuna-like hull
was a radical break from conventional,
cigar-shaped
hulls. The new hull reached amazing thirty-three knots.
It could also turn quickly, at a rate of 3.2 degrees per
second, instead of the average 2.7 degrees per second of
conventional submarines. This new design required a
single screw aft of the rudders and stern planes (which
only appears on submarine models produced by
ModelShipMaster.)
The two innovations, nuclear power and teardrop
hull, proved complementary in the USS Skipjack model.
The
design was so successful that it provided a basis for
future submarines, not only in the United States, but
also around the world. Thus came Skipjack’s motto “Radix Nova Tridentis,” or “Root of a New Sea
Power.”
The
Skipjack class
submarines were well armed, with six Mk. 59 bow
torpedo tubes. Unlike previous classes, they did not
have aft-firing torpedo tubes—their large single
propeller made firing torpedoes rearward hazardous. The
class could also launch the Mark 45 ASTOR antisubmarine
wire-guided nuclear torpedo, which had a range of eight
miles and packed an eleven-kiloton nuclear warhead.
This primarily wood USS Skipjack submarine model is
15" long x 6.5" tall x 4" wide(1/200 scale) $1,490
 Shipping and insurance in
the contiguous USA included.
Other places: $200 flat rate. This model is in stock and will be shipped within five
business days.
We can build the
USS Skipjack
at 21" long (1/144 scale) and 30" long
(1/100 scale). Please
contact us for a quote:
services@ModelShipMaster.com.
Learn
more about the USS Skipjack here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipjack-class_submarine
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