USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a
Skipjack-class nuclear
submarine of the
United States Navy and the sixth vessel of the U.S. Navy to carry that name.
Scorpion was lost on 22 May 1968, with 99 crewmen dying in the incident. USS
Scorpion is one of two nuclear submarines the U.S. Navy has lost, the other being . It was one of four mysterious submarine disappearances in 1968; the others being the Israeli submarine
INS Dakar, the
French submarine Minerve and the
Soviet submarine K-129.