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USS Scorpion | SSN-589
The USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Skipjack-class nuclear submarine of the United States Navy that tragically sank on May 22, 1968, with the loss of all 99 crew members. The submarine was returning ...
In May of 1968, that's what happened to the Skipjack-class attack submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589). After finishing up a deployment in the Mediterranean, the Scorpion headed back to its home port ...
A submarine veterans group is calling for a new investigation of the unexplained accident that sank the U.S. nuclear attack sub USS Scorpion more than 40 years ago.
All You Need to Know: In May 1968, the USS Scorpion (SSN-589), a nuclear-powered Skipjack-class attack submarine, mysteriously sank in the Atlantic, claiming the lives of 99 sailors. The vessel ...
They were the family and friends of crew members of the nuclear attack submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589), there to welcome their loved ones home from an arduous three-month deployment.
The organization sent a letter Nov. 5 to the secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus, with the "request that the United States Navy officially reopen the investigation of USS Scorpion (SSN 589)." ...
Groton ― Fifty-six years ago to the day, a dock reserved for the returning USS Scorpion sat empty while Navy wife Mary Gilbert consoled the ones whose husbands would not return.
The U.S.S. Scorpion SSN 589, a 99-man fast attack submarine, sank 400 miles southwest of the Azores on May 22, 1968, a time during the Cold War when the Soviet Navy was expanding and becoming more ...
About the USS Scorpion, SSN-589. The $40 million Skipjack-class nuclear-powered Scorpion was constructed by the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics in Groton, Ct. and commissioned in 1960.
Since the inception of SUBSAFE only one submarine has suffered a similar fate, and that was the USS Scorpion (SSN 589), which sank in 1968 for reasons still undetermined.
Kevin Galeaz, president of the USS Thresher Arlington National Cemetery Memorial Foundation, said, “we owe our lives to these guys.” Thresher sank on April 10, 1963, about 220 miles off Cape Cod.