Tuesday, May 22, 2007

USS Scorpion (SSN-589) - 39 years ago

Posted so we do not forget that the dangers of the sea and how the service of submariners during hot wars and cold conflicts can exact a toll that still remains a mystery.




















USS Scorpion SSN-589 (US Navy photo)
Photo location was Naples Italy and was taken a little over 1 month before her loss.

The following officers and men were lost with Scorpion (SSN-589).

Officers Chief Petty Officers
  • Commander Francis Atwood Slattery,
    Commanding Officer
  • Lieutenant Commander David B. Lloyd,
    Executive Officer
  • Lieutenant Commander Daniel P. Stephens
  • Lieutenant John Patrick Burke
  • Lieutenant George Patrick Farrin,
  • Lieutenant Robert Walter Flesch
  • Lieutenant William Clarke Harwi
  • Lieutenant Charles Lee Lamberth
  • Lieutenant John C. Sweet
  • Lieutenant (j.g.) James W. Forrester, Jr.
  • Lieutenant (j.g.) Michael A. Odening
  • Lieutenant (j.g.) Laughton D. Smith


  • TMC Walter William Bishop,
    Chief of the Boat (COB)
  • MMC(SS) Robert Eugene Bryan
  • RMC(SS) Garlin Ray Denney
  • RMCS(SS) Robert Johnson
  • MMCS(SS) Richard Allen Kerntke
  • QMCS(SS) Frank Patsy Mazzuchi
  • EMC(SS) Daniel Christopher Peterson
  • HMC(SS) Lynn Thompson Saville
  • ETC(SS) George Elmer Smith, Jr.
  • YNCS(SS) Leo Williazm Weinbeck
  • MMC(SS) James Mitchell Wells
Enlisted Men
  • FTG3(SS) Keith Alexander M. Allen
  • IC2 Thomas Edward Amtower
  • MM2 George Gile Annable
  • FN(SS) Joseph Anthony Barr, Jr.
  • RM2(SS) Michael Jon Bailey
  • IC3 Michael Reid Blake
  • MM1(SS) Robert Harold Blocker
  • MM2(SS) Kenneth Ray Brocker
  • MM1(SS) James K. Brueggeman
  • RMSN Daniel Paul Burns, Jr.
  • IC2(SS) Ronald Lee Byers
  • MM2(SS) Douglas Leroy Campbell
  • MM3(SS) Samuel J. Cardullo
  • MM2(SS) Francis King Carey
  • SN Gary James Carpenter
  • MM1(SS) Robert Lee Chandler
  • MM1(SS) Mark Helton Christiansen
  • SD1(SS) Romeo Constantino
  • MM1(SS) Robert James Cowan
  • SD1(SS) Joseph Cross
  • FA Michael Edward Dunn
  • ETR2 Richard Philip Engelhart
  • FTGSN William Ralph Fennick
  • IC3(SS) Vernon Mark Foli
  • SN Ronald Anthony Frank
  • CSSN(SS) Michael David Gibson
  • IC2 Steven Dean Gleason
  • STS2(SS) Michael Edward Henry
  • SK1(SS) Larry Leroy Hess
  • ETR1(SS) Richard Curtis Hogeland
  • MM1(SS) John Richard Houge
  • EM2 Ralph Robert Huber
  • TM2(SS) Harry David Huckelberry
  • EM3 John Frank Johnson
  • IC3(SS) Steven Leroy Johnson
  • QM2(SS) Julius Johnston, III
  • FN Patrick Charles Kahanek
  • TM2(SS) Donald Terry Karmasek
  • ETR3(SS) Rodney Joseph Kipp
  • MM3 Dennis Charles Knapp
  • MM1(SS) Max Franklin Lanier
  • ET1(SS) John Weichert Livingston
  • ETN2 Kenneth Robert Martin
  • ET1(SS) Michael Lee McGuire
  • TMSN Steven Charles Miksad
  • TMSN Joseph Francis Miller, Jr.
  • MM2(SS) Cecil Frederick Mobley
  • QM1(SS) Raymond Dale Morrison
  • QM3(SS) Dennis Paul Pferrer
  • EM1(SS) Gerald Stanley Psopisil
  • IC3 Donald Richard Powell
  • MM2 Earl Lester Ray, Jr.
  • CS1(SS) Jorge Luis Santana
  • ETN2(SS) Richard George Schaffer
  • SN William Newman Schoonover
  • SN Phillip Allan Seifert
  • MM2(SS) Robert Bernard Smith
  • ST1(SS) Harold Robert Snapp, Jr.
  • ETM2(SS) Joel Candler Stephens
  • MM2(SS) David Burton Stone
  • EM2 John Phillip Sturgill
  • YN3 Richard Norman Summers
  • TMSN John Driscoll Sweeney, Jr.
  • ETM2(SS) James Frank Tindol, III
  • CSSN Johnny Gerald Veerhusen
  • TM3 Robert Paul Violeiti
  • ST3 Ronald James Voss
  • FTG1(SS) John Michael Wallace
  • MM1(SS) Joel Kurt Watkins
  • MMFN Robert Westley Watson
  • TM2 James Edwin Webb
  • SN Ronald Richard Williams
  • MM3 Robert Alan Willis
  • IC1(SS) Virgil Alexander Wright, III
  • TM1(SS) Donald H. Yarsbrough
  • ETR2(SS) Clarence Otto Young, Jr.

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