USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Skipjack-class nuclear-powered submarine that served in the United States Navy, the sixth vessel and second submarine to carry that name. Scorpion sank on 27 May 1968. She is one of two nuclear submarines that the U.S. Navy has lost, the other being USS Thresher. [4]

May 14, 2018 · In 1968, one of the U.S. Navy’s nuclear submarines went missing in the Atlantic. More than a half-century later, the full story of its disappearance can finally be told. In an undated photo, members of the USS Scorpion’s crew leave the submarine while it is docked at its home port in Norfolk, Virginia.

Jan 30, 2025 · The loss of the Skipjack-class nuclear attack submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589) remains to many an unresolved mystery more than 56 years after it sank, with all hands, on 22 May 1968.

Jun 7, 2022 · Scorpion, a Skipjack-class attack submarine, was laid down on 20 August 1958 by the Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 19 December...

Sep 25, 2023 · On May 22, 1968, the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion sank while on a surveillance mission — but the Navy hid the full truth of the disaster from the public for decades.

Sep 30, 2024 · On May 22, 1968, the USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was lost with 12 officers and 87 sailors. It was one of the worst accidents in U.S. Navy history. Skipjack-class attack submarines were arguably...

On May 22, 1968, USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was lost southwest of the Azores. On May 21, 1968, the submarine, which was returning from a Mediterranean deployment, reported its position 50 miles south of the Azores. Six days later, the vessel was reported overdue.

The US nuclear submarine SCORPION (SSN 589) was lost on 22 May 1968 because the explosion at 18:20:44 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) of hydrogen out-gassed by the TLX-53-A main battery created over-pressures that were more than several times the 100-percent fatal level in spaces forward of the

Dec 23, 2022 · On May 20, 1968, the U.S. Navy ordered one of her fastest submarines, the USS Scorpion, to conduct a high-tech espionage mission. The submarine, fresh off maneuvers with the Sixth Fleet in...

Sep 23, 2023 · In May 1968, the USS Scorpion was tasked with observing Russian military activity and set out on an observational mission to the Azores. The sub was scheduled to return to Norfolk, Virginia,...