⚓ USS Scorpion
Nuclear attack submarine lost at sea, 1968
📋 Fast Facts
- Skipjack-class nuclear attack submarine commissioned in 1960
- Lost in May 1968 with 99 officers and sailors aboard
- Wreck discovered at approximately 3,000 metres depth southwest of the Azores
- Cause of loss never definitively established; official investigation inconclusive
USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a United States Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine that disappeared in May 1968 whilst returning from a Mediterranean patrol. The loss of the vessel and its entire crew of 99 remains one of the most significant unsolved incidents in Cold War naval history. The submarine's wreck was discovered months later on the Atlantic seabed, broken into sections ...