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
HMS Skipjack (1808) after having lost her master, Birt Dynely, her mate, and four seamen killed, and two men wounded. "Confiance" took "Duke of Montrose" into Guadeloupe. On 23 August 1808 captured the French privateer schooner "Confiance", of seven guns (though pierced for 16) and 70 men. She was three days out from Cayenne. The Royal Navy took "Confiance" into service as "Skipjack". Lieutenant Thompson commissioned "Skipjack" later that year. In January -February 1810, "Skipjack" participated in the capture of Guadeloupe, which earned for her crew the clasp "Guadaloupe" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all