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 ...
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USS Scorpion The Mysterious Loss Of A Nuclear Submarine
The USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Skipjack-class nuclear submarine of the United States Navy that tragically sank on May 22, ...
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 ...
Key point: Suspicions over what destroyed the USS Scorpion included overdue repairs or even the Soviets. In May 1968, a U.S. nuclear-powered attack submarine was sent on a secret mission to spy on the ...
For years, Russ Fennick was wracked with guilt when people would apologize to him for the loss of a father he never knew. Fennick was just 3 months old when Navy Seaman William R. Fennick left Norfolk ...
Sandra Carman remembers vividly the moment she found out the submarine on which her oldest brother, Dennis Knapp, served had gone missing in May 1968 in the Atlantic Ocean. The Claysville resident, ...
We will likely never know exactly what happened to the “attack submarine” USS Scorpion, but after 51 years of speculation, we might be getting closer. The ship mysteriously sank on May 22, 1968, in 11 ...
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. – Ninety-nine men sailed aboard the USS Scorpion. The nuclear submarine was soon to return home to Norfolk, Va. But the Scorpion never returned. Ninety-nine men went to their watery ...
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 ...
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