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Grounding Anecdote[edit]

On Christmas Day 1971 while transiting through the Straits of Malacca on course to the Indian Ocean, Scamp hit bottom. She sustained hull damage along 50+ feet of her keel and the impact knocked a 6" X 14" section out of one of her 7 Screw blades /// the screw wasn't damaged ///. She was making way to much noise to continue on patrol and we had to go to Japan and get her checked out and the Screw and pitsword fixed. The hull damage was determined to be non-consequential). When she hit bottom we were cruising at high speed 50 feet above ordered depth, if we had been at or under ordered depth, I probably would not be writing this now ;-) She heeled over to port more than 100 degrees // it did not heel more than 100 degrees ///, That was a very scary ride indeed. One of our Auxiliarymen was performing maintenance on one of the high pressure hydraulic pumps in "Shaft Alley" and he said the 21" diameter main shaft twisted up like a pretzel /// there was no shaft damage ///and it was a wonder it didn't snap off. A tool box was thrown onto our Engineman and it broke his arm /// no crew at all were injured ///. (Tom Wilson FTG2 SS at the time - Submarine duty is hours and hours of shear boredom punctuated by minutes of shear terror! Always remember the "Steely eyed Killers of the Deep, Protectors of Freedoms most Outer Boundary’s" 8-))

Moved to talk from main page for anon. Some of this can go back if a source is provided. --Dual Freq 22:58, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

USS SCAMP[edit]

My Dad John M . Reilly was a dive officer on this sub i as a youngster was on this sub many times while in San Diego my mom and us Micheal and Patrick met our father when he was in port at the pear where they mored ! Amodelone63 (talk) 00:44, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

New Website for USS Scamp[edit]

There is a new website for the USS Scamp. There former site's domain was snapped up by a consolidator and lost. The new Scamp website is https://uss-scamp.net/ This website contains original content of images, newspaper articles, and information on the submarine from various first-hand sources.

108.31.29.18 (talk) 23:09, 12 April 2022 (UTC)Ronald Charest, webmaster for USS Scamp website108.31.29.18 (talk) 23:09, 12 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]