One of only two US nuclear subs lost during the Cold War:
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50 Years Ago, Navy Sub USS Scorpion Sank with 99 Crewmen
The Virginian-Pilot 28 May 2018 By Courtney Mabeus
NORFOLK, Va. -- For years, Russ Fennick was wracked with guilt when people would apologize to him for the loss of a father he never knew.
Fennick was just 3 months old when Navy Seaman William R. Fennick left Norfolk on a routine deployment to the Mediterranean. He has seen his father only in photos since.
The elder Fennick was a fire control technician on board the Skipjack-class nuclear submarine USS Scorpion (SSN 589). Russ Fennick was 6 months old on May 27, 1968, when his mother, Eileen Bentle, held him on a pier at Naval Station Norfolk and waited, along with a couple of dozen other families, in driving rain for their sailor to return. Hours passed. Families were sent home.
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