— -- 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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Key Point: Nuclear submarines are a powerful that can have powerful consequences when something goes wrong. The discovery of wreckage from the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan in November 2018 grimly ...
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 ...