USS Skipjack (SSN-585) provided support vessel services for another submarine's sea trials. Following this mission, "Skipjack" entered NNSDDCO in October for decommissioning. "Skipjack" was decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 19 April 1990, having served for 31 years in the US Navy. ex-"Skipjack" entered the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program in Bremerton, Washington, on 17 March 1996. Recycling was completed on 1 September 1998. USS Skipjack (SSN-585) USS "Skipjack" (SSN-585), the lead ship of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarine, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named after the Skipjack tuna. Her keel
Kathryn (skipjack) half interest, again for "$5.00 etc." and served as her captain. She received a major rebuild in 1954 at the Krentz Marine Railway in Harryhogan, Virginia, which was published in "Chesapeake Sailing Craft". In 1963 Wheatley became "Kathryn's" full owner. Johnnie R. Parkinson, Jr. bought "Kathryn" in 1975 for $18,000 and moved her to Crisfield. She was sold in 1981 to Herman Russell Dize (whose father had worked aboard "Kathryn" 70 years before) and William James Roe, Jr. Capt. Harold "Stoney" Whitelock of Dames Quarter, Maryland purchased "Kathryn" in 2008 and is currently working to restore her. Kathryn (skipjack) The