USS Scamp (SSN-588)
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The USS Scamp (SSN-588) was a nuclear-powered submarine of the Skipjack class , and the second ship of the US Navy , the Scamp was baptized. On January 23, 1959, she was laid down on the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo . She ran on 8 October 1960 by the stack and was the widow of the U-boat commander John C. Hollingsworth, who in World War II, the first USS Scamp had commanded baptized. The boat entered service on Mare Island on June 5 under the command of Commander WN Dietzen.
technology
Hull and drive
The hull of the Scamp was 76.8 m long and 9.4 m wide. The draft was 8.5 m. The ship was propelled by two Westinghouse steam turbines that acted on a shaft. The steam was generated by a Westinghouse S5W pressurized water reactor . The power was 15,000 wave horsepower, the top speed was 33 knots submerged and 15 knots while on the surface.
Armament
The Scamp was armed with six torpedo tubes 53.3 cm in diameter in the bow. 24 torpedoes of the type Mk 37 , Mk 14 , Mk 16 , Mk 27 or Mk 45 ASTOR could be carried.
Mission history
1960s
The Scamp spent the first months in the service of the fleet with the training of the crew and the sea tests in Bremerton , San Diego and Pearl Harbor . After these operations, the Scamp returned to the Mare Island Naval Shipyard for major repairs and inspection. After that, she finished the final tests and operated in the waters around San Diego. In April 1962, the Scamp was stationed in the Western Pacific and returned to San Diego around July. The boat then operated in local waters until September when she went on a training trip again. The Scamp returned to San Diego and was used in coastal waters until it came back to the shipyard in February 1963 to be docked. Back in the water in March, it was again stationed in the western Pacific in April with a long training voyage in Okinawa Bay and returned in October 1963. She continued her patrols on the west coast until June 1964, when she sailed west again to complete the standby training. In September 1964 the boat returned to San Diego. The Scamp ran again in 1965 at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard for intensive modernization. In June 1966, after installing SUBSAFE and doing some overhauls, it left the shipyard and went back on training drives off the coast of San Diego. In November 1966, the boat operated in Puget Sound for about a month and outside of San Diego for the first six months of 1967. On July 28, the boat left San Diego to join the 7th US fleet in the Pacific. The boat stayed in the Far East and operated with the fleet off the coast of Vietnam before returning to San Diego on December 28th. In the following period from January to May 1968, the Scamp was used from San Diego for coastal protection. On May 11, 1968, the boat arrived in Pearl Harbor to complete a training program from here. The return to San Diego took place on May 19, where the Scamp remained until June 15, after which she was transferred to San Francisco in the Mare Island Shipyard. After a three-week layover in the yard, the Scamp returned to San Diego on July 16 and spent the rest of the year on training trips. The year 1969 began with alternating lay times in port and training trips until the preparations for an upcoming overhaul began in March. At the same time, however, the training continued until December, and then on November 1, 1969, the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard called for overhaul. This lasted until January 1971. During the shipyard layover, the Scamp Bremerton was assigned as the new home port.
1970s
After the overhaul, test drives in Puget Sound followed and on February 12, 1971, San Diego became their home base again. Here, however, she did not return until after a trip to Pearl Harbor on April 26, 1971. On July 27, the boat sailed into the West Pacific and, after a stopover in Pearl Harbor from August 2 to August 13, arrived in Subic Bay on August 30 . For the rest of the year, the Scamp operated in the association of the 7th Fleet. On February 2, 1972, she ran back to San Diego, but returned to the 7th Fleet in Southeast Asia in May. Operations in the South China Sea followed until she returned to her home port on August 1. This was followed by a two-month standby phase with more than a month of limited standby in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. On November 28, 1972, the Scamp ran from Puget Sound, completed weapon tests on the drive and ran into San Diego on December 11, 1972. She stayed there and carried out operations in the waters off San Diego until March 29, 1973. Then she left the west coast to sail to the Far East . After a short stay in Pearl Harbor from April 5 to 10, the boat reached Yokosuka on April 23, 1973 . There she was again subordinated to the 7th Fleet. The Scamp left Guam on September 1st and arrived in Pearl Harbor on September 10th. On September 15, she left Hawaii again and reached San Diego on September 21, 1973. After a standby time until November 1, trips followed in the coastal areas off San Diego by June 1974.
1980s
The Scamp moved to the east coast and was 1980-1981 at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard , Portsmouth , Virginia in the shipyard . This was followed by missions in the Mediterranean during the Lebanon crisis and in two UNITAS maneuvers , in which the boat received its last award Battle "E" in 1982 . Then the boat carried out training trips on the east coast of the USA. During a rescue maneuver in the Atlantic was from an in distress geratenen Panamanian a sailor rescued freighter. The Scamp's tower was so badly damaged that the ship was taken out of active service.
On April 28, 1988 she was removed from the shipping list and canceled as part of the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program (SRP) at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PSNS & IMF) until September 9, 1994.
Awards
The scamp was awarded three Battle Stars for use in the Vietnam War .
literature
- JL Christley: United States naval submarine force information book . Graphic Enterprises of Marblehead, Marblehead, MA.
Web links
- History of USS Scamp in the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (English)
- The USS Homepage Scamp (English)