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Scamp (SSN-588)
Active Service & Disposal

Radio Call Sign: November - Golf - Yankee - Oscar

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Skipjack Class Attack Submarine: Laid down, 23 January 1959, at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA.; Launched, 8 October 1960; Commissioned, USS Scamp (SSN-588), 5 June 1961; Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register, 28 April 1988; Final Disposition, disposed through NPSSRP (Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program) at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA., completed 9 September 1994. Scamp earned three battle stars for service in the Vietnam War.

Specifications: Displacement, Surfaced: 2,880 t., Submerged: 3,500 t.; Length 251' 9"; Beam 32'; Draft 28 ft.; Speed, Surfaced 15 kts, Submerged 30+ kts; Depth Limit 700'; Complement 118; Combat Systems, Sonar, BQR-12, BQR-2 passive, BQS-4 (modified) active/passive; Radar BPS-12; Fire Control, MK-101 torpedo FCS, ASW MK-48; Armament, six 21" torpedo tubes, forward; Propulsion System, one S5W nuclear reactor, two Westinghouse steam turbines, one propeller 15,000 shp.

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
39k	The Plunger (SSN-595), tied-up alongside the Scamp (SSN-588) with the Permit (SSN-594) behind, c1964, probably at Pearl Harbor. The submarine tender Sperry (AS-12) is tied-up on the other side of the jetty.	USN photo courtesy of Robert Hurst.
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.
78k	Scamp (SSN-588) cuts through the waves prior to 1967.	Courtesy of Terry B. DeBerry & submitted by Teresa Ewing.
97k	Scamp (SSN-588) underway, 1969.	U.S. Navy photo contributed by uss.scamp.com.
75k	Portside bow view of the Scamp (SSN-588) at the Norfolk Naval Ship Yard Drydock, 1981. The three people standing under the bow are (from l-r): the Engineer, the C.O. and the D.C.A.	U.S. Navy photo contributed by uss.scamp.com.
134k	Stern view of the Scamp (SSN-588) at the Norfolk Naval Ship Yard Drydock as it starts to fill, 1981.	U.S. Navy photo contributed by uss.scamp.com.
174k	Scamp (SSN-588) 1981, at NNSY, during an Emergancy Main Ballest Tank (EMBT) blow test pier side.	U.S. Navy photo contributed by Jim Tucker (MM1/SS Auxiliaryman, USN Retired)
322k	A gift from the crew of the Scamp (SSN-588) underway off Toulon France, to the French *SSK Flore* in 1982.	Courtesy of Laurent Lamarche.
430k	The nuclear-powered submarine Scamp (SSN-588) and the guided missile destroyer MaCdonough (DDG-39) transit the canal on 9 Jul 1984, during Unitas XXV, the silver anniversary hemispheric naval exercise involving Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, the United States, Uruguay and Venezuela.	USN photo # DN-ST-90-01200, by PHC Terry C. Mitchell, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil & submitted by Bill Gonyo.
402k	Aerial starboard view of the guided missile destroyer MaCdonough (DDG-39), background, and the nuclear-powered attack submarine Scamp (SSN-588) going west through the Panama Canal to the Pacific Ocean during the joint US/South American Exercise Unitas XXV.	USN photo # DN-ST-85-08729, by PH2 Phil Wiggins, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil & submitted by Bill Gonyo.
198k	Officers conduct a submarine pre-sail conference in the wardroom aboard the nuclear-powered attack submarine Scamp (SSN-588) during Operation Unitas XXV.	USN photo # DN-ST-85-08196, by PHC Terry C. Mitchell, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil.
556k	The nuclear-powered attack submarine Scamp (SSN-588) arrives in port for the start of the joint US/South American Exercise Unitas XXV at Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, on 23 Sep 1984.	USN photo # DN-ST-85-08746, by JO1 (SS) Pete Sundberg, USN, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil & submitted by Bill Gonyo.
30k	Scamp (SSN-588) decommissioning stamp, 26 April 1988.	Courtesy of Richard Leonhardt.
188k	Starboard side view of the Scamp (SSN-588), probably off Hawaii, date unknown.	Courtesy of goatlocker.org.
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.