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 Monday, she ...
The loss of the Indonesian submarine KRI Nanggala in April showed the perils of undersea warfare. It's not the first time; in 1968, four submarines were lost in five months. The causes of those wrecks ...
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USS Scorpion The Mysterious Loss Of A Nuclear Submarine
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 to ...
Here’s What You Need to Know: There will likely never be a conclusive explanation for the loss of USS Scorpion. In May 1968, a U.S. nuclear-powered attack submarine was sent on a secret mission to spy ...
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 watery ...
Key Point: The exact truth of the Scorpion’s fate will never be known for certain. The discovery of wreckage from the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan in November 2018 grimly highlights the dangers ...
NEWPORT NEWS — The bell tolled one-by-one Sunday for the names of the 99 sailors who were lost aboard the USS Scorpion 57 years ago. In May 1968, the Norfolk-based nuclear submarine imploded and sank ...
President Johnson has received a message of condolence from Israel Prime Minister Levi Eshkol over the loss of the nuclear submarine Scorpion somewhere in the North Atlantic with 99 men aboard. The ...
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