Sea Classics Magazine
Where History Sets Sail
Dramatic painting depicts the last days of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration when rugged men in wooden ships would do their best to defeat what nature threw at them.
ON THE COVER:
For its day, the USS Scorpion was a potent weapon. The Skipjackclass
of nuclear subs could travel at over 30-knots and had six 21-inch torpedo
tubes capable of firing everything from WWII-vintage Mark 14 torpedoes
up to the first versions of the multi-purpose Mark 48. When the Scorpion
disappeared in 1968, the Navy panicked — could the sub have been a victim of the Soviets?
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