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
Skipjack-class submarine the increased size of the "Thresher" and "Sturgeon" classes, which retained "Skipjack"s S5W power plant, plus the introduction of the "skewback" screw, which was quiet but mechanically inefficient. The "Skipjack"s saw service during the Vietnam War and most of the Cold War. The "Skipjack"-class submarines were withdrawn from service in the late 1980s and early 1990s except for , which sank on 5 June 1968 southwest of the Azores while returning from a Mediterranean deployment, with all 99 crewmembers lost. The gap in the hull-number sequence was taken by the two one-of-a-kind submarines and . Skipjack-class submarine The "Skipjack" class