| Year | Date | Historical Events |
| 1933 | Oct 24 | Keel laid down at the Electric Boat Co.,Groton,CT. |
| 1935 | May 21 | Launched. |
| 1936 | Jan 25 | Commissioned with LT. C.J. Carter in command.
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| 1937 | Mar 4 | Shark arrived in San Diego,CA. after transiting the Panama Canal. She spent the next year and one-half in training exercises and Army-Navy war problems as a unit of Submarine Squadron 6. |
| 1938 | Dec 16 | Following a regular overhaul at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA., Shark got underway from San Diego, CA., bound for Pearl Harbor, HI. and reassignment to SubRon 4.
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| 1940 | Dec 3 | Shark set sail from Pearl Harbor to join the Asiatic Fleet based at Manila, Philippine Islands, where she engaged in fleet tactics and exercises until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. |
| 1941 | Dec 9 | Shark departed Manila, Philippine Islands. |
| | Dec 19 | Shark was ordered back to Manila to embark Admiral Thomas C. Hart, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Asiatic Fleet, for transportation to Soerabaja, Java. |
| 1942 | Jan 6 | Shark was barely missed by a torpedo from a Japanese submarine. |
| | Jan 27 | Shark was directed to join the submarines patrolling in Strait of Malacca, then to cover the passage East of Lifamatola and Bangka Strait. |
| | Feb 2 | Shark reported to her base at Soerabaja that she had been depth charged 10 miles off Tifore Island and had failed to sink a Japanese ship during a torpedo attack. |
| | Feb 7 | Shark reported chasing an empty cargo ship headed Northwest. |
| | Feb 8 | Shark was told to proceed to Makassar Strait and later was told to report information. Nothing was heard. |
| | Mar 7 | Shark was reported as presumed lost, the victim of unknown causes. 59 men lost. |
| | Jun 24 | Struck from the Naval Register. |