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    Posted: 10 Apr 2017 at 12:53pm
Let us not forget this date 54 years ago. 

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I was on the USS Scamp SSN-588 in San Diego getting ready to head for Westpac five days later.  We got underway with no answers as to her fate or location.  We had previously been through the "destructive" testing range (slow motion cameras etc.) showing all the pipes bouncing around with the shock waves - there but for the grace of God we went.... Our A School classmate, Edgar Bobbit was not so lucky...
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In New London on the USS Bang.  We had been in the same barracks as the Thresher crew in Portsmouth.  
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Originally posted by crystal crystal wrote:

I was on the USS Scamp SSN-588 in San Diego getting ready to head for Westpac five days later.  We got underway with no answers as to her fate or location.  We had previously been through the "destructive" testing range (slow motion cameras etc.) showing all the pipes bouncing around with the shock waves - there but for the grace of God we went.... Our A School classmate, Edgar Bobbit was not so lucky...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Gil Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 Apr 2017 at 4:12pm
Wasn't the Scamp a sister ship to the Scorpion?  It came to Pearl right after the Scorpion tragedy, I believe on the way to Westpac in '68.


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Mid-way through ET'A' school on TI, SF Bay. BESS next, followed by qual on Scamp
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