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 ...