Five years later, the Navy suffered the loss of a Skipjack-class attack submarine under mysterious circumstances. On May 22, 1968, the USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was lost with 12 officers and 87 ...

The Soviet submarine K-129, armed with 3 nuclear missiles ... It was a cat-and-mouse game beneath the ocean waves. USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was one of a number of Skipjack-class nuclear submarines ...