Article Summary: The USS Scorpion, a nuclear-powered U.S. Navy submarine, mysteriously sank on May 22, 1968, killing all 99 crew members. Discovered at a depth of nearly 10,000 feet, the wreckage left ...
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 ...