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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: 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 ...
All You Need to Know: In May 1968, the USS Scorpion (SSN-589), a nuclear-powered Skipjack-class attack submarine, mysteriously sank in the Atlantic, claiming the lives of 99 sailors. The vessel was ...
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 ...
Author’s note: Most of the readers of this column will not see it until a few days after Memorial Day. That’s OK. Every day in this great country should be Memorial Day. I am writing this on an ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Three Kentuckiana men who died while serving their country were honored in Louisville on Sunday. The Patriots Peace Memorial exclusively honors members of the U.S. armed ...
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