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At random: "I don't know why we have to be down here on this hold down exercise(at the 60th hour). Hell, I went through this on the Thresher (SS 200) during WW ll with a Nip Sea Going Tug hooked onto our screw guards, trying to lift our butts out of the water. They didn't get us then, and these Tin Cans (ours) ain't going to get us now." -- "Hambone" Hamilton SD1 (SS). "Hambone" made 13 war patrols on USS Remora, SS-487, uttered these words in July 1957 during a hold down exercise off Kobe Japan.
5-21/22 history
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fortyrod
Posted 2018-05-21 3:49 PM (#89347)
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Subject: 5-21/22 history

Atlantic 05/21/73: The USS Sturgeon (SSN-637) strikes the bottom of the ocean suffering minor damage while operating in deep water during a dive off the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Navy says there were no injuries to the crew and the submarine's nuclear power plant was not affected. The submarine put into the nearest U.S. port at Frederiksted, St. Croix, under its own power.

5-22-1968 The USS Scorpion (SSN-589) sinks about 400 miles southwest of the Azores, killing all 99 men on board.
http://www.historynet.com/the-uss-scorpion-buried-at-sea.htm
Ralph Luther
Posted 2018-05-22 9:56 AM (#89359 - in reply to #89347)
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Subject: RE: 5-21/22 history

RIP SSN-589
JohnBay
Posted 2018-05-22 5:37 PM (#89361 - in reply to #89347)
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Subject: RE: 5-21/22 history

I am looking out the window to the right of my desk and see the lights on the house where CO Francis Slattery of the Scorpion grew up...
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