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]

2018年5月14日 · The Norfolk-based USS Scorpion, one of the Atlantic Fleet’s 19 nuclear attack submarines, had been scheduled to transmit a four-word “Check Report”—encrypted to prevent the Soviets from intercepting it—that meant, in essence, “Situation normal, …

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...

USS Scorpion (SSN-589) as seen from the USS Tallahatchie County (AVB-2) outside Claywall Harbor, Naples, Italy in April 1968, shortly before Scorpion departed on her last voyage.

The US nuclear submarine SCORPION (SSN 589) was lost on 22 May 1968 because the explosion at 18:20:44 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) of hydrogen out-gassed by the TLX-53-A main battery created over-pressures that were more than several times the 100-percent fatal level in spaces forward of the

2023年9月25日 · On May 22, 1968, the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion sank while on a surveillance mission — but the Navy hid the full truth of the disaster from the public for decades.

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

On May 22, 1968, USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was lost southwest of the Azores. On May 21, 1968, the submarine, which was returning from a Mediterranean deployment, reported its position 50 miles south of the Azores. Six days later, the vessel was reported overdue.

Scorpion VI (SSN-589) 1960 – 1968 The sixth U.S. Navy ship named Scorpion , but named to perpetuate the name of the fifth Scorpion (SS-278), which sank with all hands in 1944.