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USS Scorpion (SSN 589) (view source)
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!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|USS ''Scorpion'' (SSN 589)
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!align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career
!align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|[[Image:50 star jack.png|48px|United States Navy Jack]]
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| Class:
| ''Skipjack''
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| Laid down:
| 20 August 1958
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| Launched:
| 19 December 1959
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| Commissioned:
| 29 July 1960
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| Stricken from the Naval Registry:
| 30 June 1968
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| Fate:
| Sunk
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! colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy;"| General characteristics
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| Surface displacement:
| 3,057 tons
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| Submerged displacement:
| 3,500 tons
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| Length:
| 251 feet 9 inches
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| Beam:
| 31 feet 7 inches
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| Draft:
| 28.8 ft (8.8 m)
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| Speed:
| 20+ knots
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| Complement:
| 99 officers and men
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| Armament:
| 6 torpedo tubes
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'''USS ''Scorpion''''' (SSN 589) was a nuclear-powered submarine of the ''Skipjack''-class, and the sixth vessel in the [[United States Navy]] to bear the name; she also bears the distinction of being the second such submarine lost in as yet unclear circumstances in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] while returning home from deployment in 1968.
'''USS ''Scorpion''''' (SSN 589) was a nuclear-powered submarine of the ''Skipjack''-class, and the sixth vessel in the [[United States Navy]] to bear the name; she also bears the distinction of being the second such submarine lost in as yet unclear circumstances in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] while returning home from deployment in 1968.