"I saw it.

"I was stationed on the USS GREENLET ASR 10 at the time that happened, we were tied up aft of the SARGO, I was standing on deck in the mess line when it occurred, at the time I was an EN2 and had not entered the submarine service, needless to say everyone thought it was a nuke accident, and all the ships that could were ordered to clear the harbor and go to sea, when we got underway and left the SARGO was ablaze aft and had not flooded the stern room, when we returned to port the next day and tied up astern of the SARGO again she was ass down nose up at the pier, our deep sea divers helped in the in the underwater investigation and were the first to enter the torpedo room ,they said that the water inside the torpedo room was really hot and the fish in the skids had started to melt, that's the last time I saw the SARGO. I talked my way onto the USS RATON SS 270 got my dolphins went to new construction of the USS KAMEHAMEHA SSBN 642 road her for 5 patrols and retired in 69.

"Aloha"

Melvin D. Sprinkle MM1(SS)