Rank/Rate: Interior Communications Electrician, First Class

Birth Date: December 25, 1944

From: Nashville, Tennessee

Submarine: USS Scorpion (SSN-589)

Loss Date: May 22, 1968

Location: Approximately 400 miles southwest of the Azores

Circumstances: There is still no incontrovertible proof of the exact cause or causes of Scorpion’s loss.

NavSource, Submarine Photo Archive for the USS Scorpion (SSN589)

On Eternal Patrol list of men lost on the USS Scorpion (SSN-589)

Find a Grave Memorial: Virgil Alexander Wright III, Hollywood Cemetery, Wartrace Tennessee