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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Soviet submarine K-19, Soviet submarine K-8, USS Patrick Henry, USS Scorpion, USS Towers, USS Blueback, USS Long Beach, NS Savannah, Brazilian aircraft carrier Sao Paulo, USS George Washington, SS Esso Brussels, USS Theodore Roosevelt, Torrey Canyon, USS Robert E. Lee, RMS Windsor Castle, USS Halibut, HMS Plymouth, USS Parsons, NOAAS Surveyor, USS Mahan, USS Lynde McCormick, STV Royston Grange, SS Oriana, USS Macdonough, USS Preble, List of ship launches in 1959, HMAS Parramatta, MV Coho, EML Wambola, USS Charles F. Adams, CCGS John A. Macdonald, Darchau Ferry, HMS Yarmouth, USS Haleakala, CCGS Alexander Henry, HMS Lincoln, JDS Oyashio, HMAS Banks, SP-350 Denise, HMNZS Taranaki, MV Greenpeace, USS Henry B. Wilson, HMS Ashanti, RFA Pearleaf, JDS Teruzuki, HMS Sealion, ICGV Ooinn, HMS Walrus, HMS Falmouth, MV Tillikum, HMS Finwhale, HMS Brighton, HMS Orpheus, RFA Orangeleaf, HMS Rhyl, HMS Ockham, RFA Appleleaf, HMS Oberon. Excerpt: USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Skipjack-class nuclear submarine of the United States Navy, and the sixth ship of the U.S. Navy to carry that name. Scorpion was declared lost on 5 June 1968 with 99 crew members dying in the incident. The USS Scorpion is one of two nuclear submarines the U.S. Navy has lost, the other being USS Thresher (SSN-593), which sank on 10 April 1963 off the coast of New England. Scorpions keel was laid down on 20 August 1958 by the Electric Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 19 December 1959, sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth S. Morrison (daughter of the last commander of the World War II-era USS Scorpion, which had been lost with all hands in 1944), and commissioned on 29 July 1960, Commander Norman B. Bessac in command. Assigned to Submarine Squadron 6, Division 62, Scorpion departed New London, Connecticut, on 24 A...
