On May 22, 1968, The USS Scorpion (SSN 589), a Skipjack-class nuclear powered submarine, was lost with 99 crewmen. Below is the Officers, Sailors and Civilian that lost their lives.
RIP Brothers
On May 22, 1968, The USS Scorpion (SSN 589), a Skipjack-class nuclear powered submarine, was lost with 99 crewmen. Below is the Officers, Sailors and Civilian that lost their lives.
RIP Brothers
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22 May 2020 at 10:50
I remember that like it was yesterday.
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22 May 2020 at 12:41
When the backlash hit Norfolk from the Scorpion, I was on duty at the Classified Material Issuing Office (CMIO OR RPIO). Why don’t emergencies hit during normal working hours? My duty section and I began to pack and send KW7s to numerous ships that were going to deploy and search for the Scorpion. As we filled a plat, I ordered the KW7 and the keycards on each pallet. One of my enlisted men, asked me, “Shouldn’t we include the manuals?” It felt like cold water washed down my back. I had not thought of that.
Thank you: Barclay, Harris, Looney, and all the rest of you. Every day in every way you helped the Navy and me. I was a 21 year old Ensign. My duty section was mostly teenagers.
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22 May 2020 at 12:52
I was active duty at Cheltenham, MD when it happened. We were given their radio frequencies to see if we could locate them (but to no avail). Big controversy as to if the Soviets torpedoed her. I think they did. The Soviets were aggressive at that time (bumping our ships in the Med, having 13 submarines up and down the East coast just 12 miles offshore, etc.).
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22 May 2020 at 16:34
My brother, Oetting Chesley is listed as being on the Scorpion but he never served on this boat, He died on the Thresher April , 1963.
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22 May 2020 at 18:55
Please accept my apologies; the crew list has been corrected.
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22 May 2020 at 16:52
Mario,
I highly recommend that you check your data. I believe there is a problem.
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22 May 2020 at 17:23
Seems that CDR Slattery’s name was left off the list. He was the CO and a good friend of my dad. RIP
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23 May 2020 at 13:17
98l
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28 June 2021 at 21:59
I was nine years old when it happened. I went over to my friends house one day, and he was very sad. He said his brother was on a submarine that had gone missing; the USS Scorpion. My friend was Michael Sweeney; his brother was John Driscoll Sweeney, Jr. His father was Admiral John D. Sweeney. Over the years as I grew older, coming and going in my friends house, becoming a teenager, then an adult, I often observed over those many years, Admiral Sweeney sitting on his favorite sofa, looking out his window at the beautiful Severn river that flowed past his property toward the Naval Academy, the Chesapeake Bay, and beyond. As an older man myself now, and the father of two sons, I realize now that Admiral Sweeney must have often been thinking about his lost son…
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22 May 2022 at 10:24
I would recommend the book Silent Steel by Stephen Johnson which goes into great detail regarding the mysterious death of the USS Scorpion
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