United States Ship Scorpion (SSN-589): in Memoriam
Author : Scorpion (Submarine)
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Page : 82 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Intelligence service
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Author : Scorpion (Submarine)
Publisher :
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Intelligence service
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Author : James J. Simpson MM1 (SS)
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2024-04-12
Category : History
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On May 22, 1968, USS Scorpion SSN-589 sunk under mysterious circumstances, tragically killing everyone on board. After twenty-five years, the documents surrounding the incident become unclassified, shedding light on what may have occurred. Though the cause of the sinking of USS Scorpion is officially listed as “unknown”, the released information illuminates vital details that may finally lead to an explanation.
Author : Bruce Rule
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 11,86 MB
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781608881208
In their official report of 29 January 1970, the SCORPION Structural Analysis Group (SAG), which included the Navy's leading experts in submarine design, submarine structures, and the effect of underwater explosions, advised the Navy Court of Inquiry (COI) that the US nuclear submarine SCORPION was lost on 22 May 1968 becase of the violent explosion of the main storage battery. The COI disregarded that assessment and concluded SCORPION was lost because of the "explosion of (a) large charge weight externalto the submarine's pressure hull." That erroneous conclusion which, by default, has become the Navy's explanation for the tragedy, contributed to the conspiracy theory that SCORPION was sunk by a Soviet torpedo. This book includes six letters sent to the Navy from 2009 to 2011. These letters provide the results of the first reanalysis in 40 yeears of acoustic detections of the loss of SCORPION. This reanalysis confirms the 1970 SAG battery-explosion assessment and provides important new information on the loss of SCORPION. The author was the lead acoustic analyst at the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) for 42 years, ending in 2007. ONI did not receive any SCORPION acoustic data until the author provided it in October 2009. The book includes a prologue signed by 96 members of the Scorpion families asking the Navy to bring forth further information on the causes of the tragedy.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Cold War
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Includes portrait of each crew member lost when the USS Scorpion sank on May 22, 1968, along with each person's rank/rate, birth date, and hometown.
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 1969
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Bruce Rule
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2008*
Category : Nuclear submarines
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Author : United States. Navy Department
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Page : pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Submarine disasters
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Author : U S NAVY.
Publisher : Nimble Books
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 2020-10-20
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ISBN : 9781608881710
The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requires that each federal agency maintain an electronic Reading Room with most frequently requested documents. The FOIA Reading Room series of which this is a member presents highlights from those collections. The tragic loss of SCORPION in May 1968 draws enduring interest in the Navy FOIA Reading Room. This volume is an ideal complement to Bruce Rule's Why the USS Scorpion (SSN 589) Was Lost: The Death of a Submarine in the North Atlantic (Nimble Books, 2011) which provides a detailed analysis of the acoustical and physical evidence. This volume contains essential primary documents that shed light on the event and on the Navy's subsequent investigation and remedial actions. - Excerpts from reports by the Court of Inquiry both before and after SCORPION was found in November 1968, including: - Index of Witnesses - Findings of Fact - Recommendations - Opinions - Letters of endorsement from successive levels of command with recommendations for action - Correspondence between the Secretary of Navy and Congress - Memoranda and records pertaining to major adverse maintenance events in SCORPION's previous voyages - Messages from the search ship MIZAR - "The MIZAR Goes on a Hunt", by J01 Sam Herzog, Navy Journalist, an eyewitness account of the search
Author : Kenneth Sewell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 42,37 MB
Release : 2009-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1439104549
Describes the events preceding and during the mysterious sinking of a United States submarine in 1968, using interviews and recent evidence to determine the act was a retaliation by the Soviet Union for a similar attack.