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Skipjack (SSN-585)

Radio Call Sign: November - Zulu - Hotel - Xray

Skipjack Class Submarine: Laid down, 29 May 1956, at General Dynamics Corp., Electric Boat Division, Groton, CT.; Launched, 26 May 1958; Commissioned, USS Skipjack (SSN-585), 15 April 1959; Decommissioned, and Struck from the Naval Register, 19 April 1990; Final Disposition, disposed of through NPSSRP (Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., 17 March 1996.

Specifications: Displacement, Surface 3,075 t., Submerged: 3,513 t.; Length 252' ; Beam 31' 7"; Draft 29' 5"; Speed, Surfaced 15 kts, Submerged 20+ kts; Test Depth 700'; Complement 8 Officers, 85 Enlisted,; Armament, six 21" torpedo tubes; Pressurized water reactor, two steam turbines, one propeller.

Size	Image Description	Source
60k	Layout drawing showing Electric Boat arrangements during luanch ceremony for Skipjack (SS-585).	Electric Boat photo submitted by Ken Hart.
60k	Watercolour and gouache on paper painting by the artist Viktor Stepansky entitled "Diving Skipjack Class". The Skipjack Class (SSN-585 / 88-92) - clearing showing the tear-drop shape adopted by many of the submarine's successors. The Scorpion (SSN-589) is pictured here underway.	Photo & text courtesy of subart.net.
58k	Skipjack (SS-585) about to slide down the launching ways at General Dynamics Corp., Electric Boat Division, Groton, CT., 26 May 1958.	US Navy photo courtesy of goatlocker.org.
149k	Cover of Skipjack (SS-585) Launch Ceremony pamphlet (General Dynamics Corporation Electric Boat Division)	Courtesy of Ken Hart.
54k	Skipjack (SS-585) & Triton (SSRN-586). Commemorative postal cover issued on the occasion of the first day in commission of the *Triton*, 10 November 1959.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
157k	Cover of Skipjack (SS-585) Commissioning Ceremony pamphlet (General Dynamics Corporation Electric Boat Division)	Courtesy of Ken Hart.
90k	Cover of Skipjack (SS-585) Welcome Aboard pamphlet.	USN / Courtesy of Ken Hart.
179k	Submarine Silhouettes of 1960: Nautilus (SSN-571), Seawolf (SSN-575), Skate (SSN-578), Skipjack (SS-585), Triton (SSRN-586), Halibut (SSGN-587), Thresher (SSN-593), Tullibee (SSN-597), George Washington (SSBN-598), & Ethan Allen (SSBN-608) classes.	U.S. Navy Photograph submitted by Ron Titus, courtesy of Ingersoll-Rand. Corp.
187k	Nuclear Submarine Profiles 1960: Nautilus (SSN-571), Seawolf (SSN-575), Triton (SSRN-586), Skate (SSN-578) & Skipjack (SS-585) classes, Halibut (SSGN-587) & Tullibee (SSN-597) classes, George Washington (SSBN-598) & Thresher (SSN-593) classes.	US Navy photo courtesy of Ron Titus courtesy of Ingersoll-Rand. Corp. Photo i.d. courtesy of Dave Johnston. Photo added 09/24/07.
61k	Halfbeak (SS-352), (second from right) immediately astern of Fulton (AS-11) at the Connecticut State Pier, New London, CT. Other submarines astern of *Fulton, include (far right) Nautilus* (SSN-571), (third from right) Bang (SS-385), and outboard of *Bang* , (fourth from right) is Tusk (SS-426). Moored to *Fulton's* starboard side are three additional submarines. The outboard boat on the starboard side is the Skipjack (SSN-585) & the other two are unidentified.	Photo from Subron 10 Cruise Book for 1964-1965, courtesy of Fred (Doc) Gardner xHM1(SS) / FMF USS Skipjack SSN 585 - SN(SS) (1964-1965) and Fred Willshaw.
53k	Skipjack (SS-585), underway, circa 1965, place unknown. Photo from Subron 10 Cruise Book 1964-1965.	US Navy photo courtesy of Fred Willshaw.
87k	Skipjack (SS-585), underway, date and place unknown.	US Navy photo courtesy of Federation of American Scientists.
131k	Port quarter bow view of the Skipjack (SS-585) underway, date and place unknown.	US Navy photo courtesy of Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr.
104k	Some of the crew of the Skipjack (SS-585) catch a little sea breeze on the starboard fin while underway, date and place unknown.	USN photo courtesy of Robert Hurst.
84k	Scale model diorama I'd built of Skipjack (SS-585), alongside at Groton, circa 1970s.	Model and photo by Ken Hart.
87k	Skipjack (SS-585) alongside at Groton, circa 1970s, port side stern oblique view of diorama.	Model and photo by Ken Hart.
179k	A starboard bow view of the submarine tender L. Y. Spear (AS-36) moored at the destroyer and submarine piers at Norfolk Naval Base on 7 Sep 1983. A *Skipjack class* nuclear-powered attack submarine is moored alongside, possibly the Skipjack (SS-585), Shark (SSN-591) or Snook (SSN-592).	Official U.S. Navy Photograph # DN-ST-85-11655, by Don S. Montgomery, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
69k	The Orion (AS-18) and two of her charges at La Maddalena Italy, August 1987: Trepang (SSN-674) inboard of the Skipjack (SSN-585).	Photo courtesy of Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr.
298k	The nuclear-powered attack submarine Skipjack (SS-585) waits ahead of the destroyer Nicholson (DD-982) in a lock as the two ships transit the Panama Canal on 21 Jun 1989.	Official U.S. Navy Photograph # DN-ST-89-08470, by PH2(AC) Scott M. Allen, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
110k	Cover of Skipjack (SS-585) 20th Reunion pamphlet.	USN / Courtesy of Ken Hart.
119k	Cover of Skipjack (SS-585) Decommissioning Ceremony pamphlet.	USN photo submitted by Ken Hart.
683k	An aerial view of a section of the Ship Intermediate Maintenance Facility at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on 17 May 1993. One submarine tender and 16 decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines are shown including the Seawolf (SSN-575); six *George Washington, and Lafayette* class SSBN's (with their missile sections cut out) plus several *Skate, Skipjack, Permit* and *Sturgeon* class SSN's. All are awaiting scrapping. Bottom row, from left to right Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), Skipjack (SS-585), Snook (SSN-592), Henry Clay (SSBN-625), Lapon (SSN-661), Dace (SSN-607), Skate (SSN-578), Swordfish (SSN-579), Sargo (SSN-583) , Seadragon (SSN-584). Across the pier are Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), and not in view, Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), George Washington (SSBN-598),Barb (SSN-596) & Sea Devil (SSN-664).	Official U.S. Navy Photograph # DN-ST-95-01863, by Calvin Larsen, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. Photo i.d. courtesy of David Johnston (USN).
291k	"Sign of the times." March 1994 photo of Nuclear submarines at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard waiting in line for scrapping. Top row left to right are Ethan Allen (SSBN-608), Seawolf (SSN-575), Plunger (SSN-595), Shark (SSN-591), Nathanael Greene (SSBN-636), Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685) alongside Sperry (AS-12), with Triton (SSRN-586) across the pier from the *Sperry* . Bottom row, from left to right Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), Skipjack (SS-585), Snook (SSN-592), Henry Clay (SSBN-625), Lapon (SSN-661), Dace (SSN-607), Skate (SSN-578), Swordfish (SSN-579), Sargo (SSN-583) , Seadragon (SSN-584). Across the pier are Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), and not in view, Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), George Washington (SSBN-598),Barb (SSN-596) & Sea Devil (SSN-664). There are so many submarines at PSNSY that the yard is running out of pier space.	Courtesy of Jack Treutle.
83k	Trench 94, Hanford Site, Washington, 1994. Hull sections containing defueled reactor compartments of decommissioned nuclear-powered submarines are put in disposal trenches. Once full, the trench will be filled with dirt and buried. The compartments are expected to retain their integrity for more than 600 years.	USN photo & partial text courtesy of home.flash.net/~tomj/tunny/chop/rx. & submitted by Jack Treutle.
569k	Sealed reactor compartments are shipped by barge out of Puget Sound Naval Base down the coast and along the Columbia River to the port of Benton. There the radioactively-contaminated hull sections are transferred to special multiwheeled high-load trailers for transport to the Hanford Reservation in Washington State. Pictured below is the burial ground for spent fuel of the following 77 nuclear reactor submarines as of March 2003: Patrick Henry (SSBN-599), Snook (SSN-592), George Washington (SSBN-598), Scamp (SSN-588), Robert E. Lee (SSBN-601), Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618), Theodore Roosevelt (SSBN-600), Dace (SSN-607), John Adams (SSBN-620), Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602), Barb (SSN-596), Ethan Allen (SSBN-608), Thomas A. Edison (SSBN-610), Pollack (SSN-603), Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685), James Monroe (SSBN-622), Skipjack (SS-585), Nathan Hale (SSBN-623), Plunger (SSN-595), Shark (SSN-591), Lafayette (SSBN-616), Sam Houston (SSBN-609), Jack (SSN-605), Haddo (SSN-604), Tinosa (SSN-606), Guardfish (SSN-612), Permit (SSN-594), Queenfish (SSN-651), Ulysses S. Grant (SSBN-631), John Marshall (SSBN-611), George C. Marshall (SSBN-654), Flasher (SSN-613), Guitarro (SSN-665), Alexander Hamilton (SSBN-617), George Washington Carver (SSBN-656), Tecumseh (SSBN-628), Halibut (SSGN-587), Will Rogers (SSBN-659), Henry L. Stimson (SSBN-655), Daniel Boone (SSBN-629), Greenling (SSN-614), John C. Calhoun (SSBN-630), Casimir Pulaski (SSBN-633), Skate (SSN-578), Sargo (SSN-583), Francis Scott Key (SSBN-657), Sturgeon (SSN-637), Benjamin Franklin (SSBN-640), Swordfish (SSN-579), Seadragon (SSN-584), Stonewall Jackson (SSBN-634), Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641), Hammerhead (SSN-663), Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN-658) , Tullibee (SSN-597), Lewis & Clark (SSBN-644), Pargo (SSN-650), Seahorse (SSN-669), Gurnard (SSN-662), Flying Fish (SSN-673), Gato (SSN-615), Puffer (SSN-652), Seawolf (SSN-575), Baton Rouge (SSN-689), Bergall (SSN-667), Whale (SSN-638), Henry Clay (SSBN-625), James Madison (SSBN-627), Finback (SSN-670), Spadefish (SSN-668), Sunfish (SSN-649), George Bancroft (SSBN-643), Grayling (SSN-646), Pintado (SSN-672), Tunny (SSN-682), Archerfish (SSN-678), & Woodrow Wilson (SSBN-624).	USN photo & partial text courtesy of home.flash.net/~tomj/tunny/chop/rx. & submitted by Jack Treutle.