I was reading Blind Mans Bluff on the nuke subs and the things they got up to stalking the Russianicon subs and cables its a good read. They seemed to agree now after the statute time limit has elapsed that Scorpion was sunk by a hot torpedo apparently due to the batteries they had in the Mk 37 fish.

Anyway thats not the snippet the one that caught my eye was when the battleship New Jersey (BB-62) was scooting across to VN for support duties she was in the cross hairs of a Soviet submarine.
Had the capt of that nuclear Russian submarine received the order to sink her he would have put her into Davey Jonse's locker.

So there you go an unknown at the time narrow squeak for one of the best battleships ever designed.
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