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Nuclear submarines are a key part of America's military forces, but we have still lost two of them over the years. Here's ...
May 27—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. On ...
In May of 1968, the USS Scorpion nuclear-powered attack submarine was conducting a last mission near the Mediterranean when she suddenly disappeared. The ship was surveilling Soviet activity in the ...
In May 1968, the USS Scorpion, a nuclear-powered attack submarine, vanished while on a mission near the Mediterranean. After sending a final message about closing in on a Soviet vessel, the sub failed ...
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. – Ninety-nine men sailed aboard the USS Scorpion. The nuclear submarine was soon to return home to Norfolk, Va. But the Scorpion never returned. Ninety-nine men went to their ...
This year, three U.S. Navy submariners who died in 1968 when the USS Scorpion was lost at sea were honored.
Stone was among the 99 crew members aboard the Navy submarine USS Scorpion when it mysteriously sank on May 22, 1968, in the Atlantic Ocean. The Navy, hesitant to recognize the destruction of a ...
But the dive initially had nothing to do with the Titanic at all — it was a secret mission to find the wrecks of two nuclear submarines, the USS Scorpion and the USS Thresher. However, this ...
In May 1968, the three men were all aboard the USS Scorpion when it was returning to Virginia from a three-month Cold War deployment in the Mediterranean Sea.
Examining the loss of the Skipjack-class nuclear powered submarine USS Scorpion; one of the greatest maritime mysteries of the 20th Century.
Stone was among the 99 crew members aboard the Navy submarine USS Scorpion when it mysteriously sank on May 22, 1968, in the Atlantic Ocean. The Navy, hesitant to recognize the destruction of a ...