Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That has left Scorpion in a strange place in American naval history: officially unresolved, heavily studied, and still argued over ...

Key Points and Summary - The 1968 loss of the U.S. nuclear submarine USS Scorpion with all 99 crew members remains one of the Navy's most haunting and unresolved mysteries. -The submarine disappeared ...

Summary and Key Points: The Skipjack-class nuclear attack submarines were the fastest SSNs in the world when they debuted in 1959, capable of 33 knots submerged and armed with six torpedo tubes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 27—GROTON — Fifty-six years ago to the day, a dock reserved for the returning USS Scorpion sat empty while Navy wife Mary ...

All You Need to Know: In May 1968, the USS Scorpion (SSN-589), a nuclear-powered Skipjack-class attack submarine, mysteriously sank in the Atlantic, claiming the lives of 99 sailors. The vessel was ...

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 ...

Author’s note: Most of the readers of this column will not see it until a few days after Memorial Day. That’s OK. Every day in this great country should be Memorial Day. I am writing this on an ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X Four chaplains, numerous WWII submariners and the entire crew of the USS Scorpion were honored during a ceremony at ...

Since the end of World War II, the United States has lost only two submarines: USS Thresher and USS Scorpion. Scorpion was the last American submarine to leave on patrol and never come back. Scorpion, ...

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 laid a ...