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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 ]
Unique submarine. First submarine to complete a submerged circumnavigation of the globe, and the only Western submarine powered by two nuclear reactors. SSGN-587 Halibut: Unique submarine. First and only American nuclear powered submarine designed and built as a guided missile submarine. SSN-588 Scamp: SSN-589 Scorpion: Lost in accident 22 May ...
The Soviet submarine K-129 carried nuclear ballistic missiles when it was lost with all hands, but as it was a diesel-electric submarine, it is not included in the list. (K-129 was partly recovered by the U.S. Project Azorian.) The two USN submarines belonged to Submarine Force Atlantic, in the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
First nuclear submarine class with teardrop hull form. USS Scorpion lost at sea 1968. Thresher/Permit: 14 USS Thresher (SSN-593) 28 May 1958 USS Gato (SSN-615) 25 January 1968 First class with bow sonar sphere. Known as Thresher class until the loss of the USS Thresher (SSN-593) in 1963 Tullibee: 1 26 May 1958 9 November 1960
USS Nautilus during her initial sea trials, 20 January 1955. The Nautilus was the first nuclear-powered submarine. Nautilus put to sea for the first time on 17 January 1955, transmitting the historic message, "Under way on nuclear power."
K-219 was involved in what has become one of the most controversial submarine incidents during the Cold War on Friday 3 October 1986. The 15-year-old vessel, which was on an otherwise routine Cold War nuclear deterrence patrol in the North Atlantic 1,090 kilometres (680 mi) northeast of Bermuda, suffered an explosion and fire in a missile tube ...
China's interest in nuclear submarines dates as far back as the mid 1950s, immediately after the US Navy commissioned the world's first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus. But with the Soviet Union ...
Craven's next large accomplishment was in the search for and locating of the submarine USS Scorpion (SSN-589), which had disappeared in deep water in the Atlantic Ocean west of Portugal and Spain. [3] As chief scientist of the Special Projects Office, Craven was in charge of the Deep Submergence Systems Project, which included the SEALAB program.