USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Skipjack-class nuclear-powered submarine that served in the United States Navy, the sixth vessel and second submarine to carry that name. Scorpion sank on 27 May 1968. She is one of two nuclear submarines that the U.S. Navy has lost, the other being USS Thresher. [4]

2025年1月30日 · The loss of the Skipjack-class nuclear attack submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589) remains to many an unresolved mystery more than 56 years after it sank, with all hands, on 22 May 1968. But a closer look at the event suggests a different description: that it is one of the more closely guarded secrets of the Cold War.

2022年6月7日 · Scorpion, a Skipjack-class attack submarine, was laid down on 20 August 1958 by the Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 19 December...

The Skipjack class was a class of United States Navy nuclear submarines (SSNs) that entered service from 1959 to 1961. This class was named after its lead boat, USS Skipjack. The new class introduced the teardrop hull and the S5W reactor to U.S. nuclear submarines.

2024年5月31日 · The Skipjack class (project SCB 154) were six Navy nuclear submarines entering service in 1959-60: Skipjack, Scamp, Scorpion, Sculpin, Shark, Snook, introducing the teardrop hull and new S5W reactor and really quickstarting the …

In 1968, a Skipjack-class nuclear submarine, the USS Scorpion (SSN-589), was patrolling for Soviet activity off of the Azores. The Skipjack-class was not quite up to par with the technology in the Thresher-class submarines, but their teardrop hull and speedy, efficient design posed a serious threat to the Soviets.

USS SCORPION (SSN 589), a 3500-ton Skipjack class nuclear-powered attack submarine built at Groton, Connecticut, was commissioned in July 1960.

The first submarine class to combine nuclear power with the new hull design was the USS Skipjack. USS Skipjack was also unique in that it was the first nuclear submarine with a single shaft. Placement of the bow planes on the sail greatly reduced flow noise at …

2011年5月22日 · USS SCORPION was the third SKIPJACK - class nuclear-powered attack submarine and the sixth ship in the Navy to bear the name. Eight years after commissioning, the SCORPION and her crew were lost on May 22, 1968, under uncertain circumstances while returning to the United States from a Mediterranean deployment.

On 22 May 1968, the USS Scorpion (SSN-589), a Skipjack-class nuclear submarine was lost at sea while crossing the Atlantic on the way to her homeport of Norfolk, VA. The Navy’s initial...