— -- Shipwreck disaster experts are calling for a deep-sea expedition to a lost U.S. nuclear attack sub, the USS Scorpion, in an effort to verify a new theory on what caused the Cold War vessel ...

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 ...

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. According to USA Today, last month, ...

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 ...

The USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Skipjack-class nuclear submarine of the United States Navy that tragically sank on May 22, ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC) -- A Navy admiral called it "one of the greatest unsolved sea mysteries of our era." Fifty-years ago, on Tuesday, the Norfolk-based submarine USS Scorpion disappeared taking all 99 ...

In 1968, one of the great submarine disasters took place when the USS Scorpion sank, killing 99 crewmembers. Author Ed Offley, a military researcher, has spent about 25 years looking into what ...

A neoprene-clad diver slipped into the murky water of the Patuxent River near Upper Marlboro Wednesday to examine the wreck of a 19th-century ship that archaeologists and state officials hope to make ...

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 ...

We will likely never know exactly what happened to the “attack submarine” USS Scorpion, but after 51 years of speculation, we might be getting closer. The ship mysteriously sank on May 22, 1968, in 11 ...

While Thursday’s storm was mostly a dud, the next one could be a whopper as parts of eastern Connecticut could see as much as a 10 inches of snow this weekend. The National Weather Service projects ...