Five years later, the Navy suffered the loss of a Skipjack-class attack submarine under mysterious circumstances. On May 22, 1968, the USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was lost with 12 officers and 87 sailors .

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 ...

Over the following eight years, they built 235 Whiskey class submarines using the Type XXI ... plant and the high-speed Albacore hull was USS Skipjack, SSN-585, which was officially rated at ...

“Fabulous, absolutely fabulous,” said Commander William W. Behrens Jr. of the nuclear submarine Skipjack, just returned last week from her first sea trials. “We could hardly believe it ...

Examining the loss of the Skipjack-class nuclear powered submarine USS Scorpion; one of the greatest maritime mysteries of the 20th Century. Light cruiser HMS Edinburgh was to escort an Arctic ...