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USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the lead boat of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in the United States Navy. She was the U.S. Navy's second submarine to be named after the thresher shark.
A retired U.S. Navy submarine commander sued the Navy to release an official report on the sinking of the USS Thresher—and won. The Thresher sank in 1963.
The USS Thresher (SSN-593), which sank 60 years ago this April, was the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine to be lost at sea. Amid the public shock over the tragedy, the U.S. Navy grappled for an answer as to what went wrong. Even today, rival theories seek to explain the mystery.
On April 9, 1963, USS Thresher (SSN 593), the lead nuclear-powered attack submarine of her class, sailed from Kittery, Maine, to approximately 220 miles east of Massachusetts to conduct...
On 10 April 1963, the U.S. Navy suffered the loss of the nuclear submarine Thresher, the nation's third peacetime submarine loss since World War II, and by far the United States' greatest single submarine disaster in terms of loss of life.
The Permit-class submarine (known as the Thresher class until the lead boat USS Thresher was lost) was a class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines (hull classification symbol SSN) in service with the United States Navy from the early 1960s until 1996.
The U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher imploded during a deep dive test 220 miles east of Cape Cod on 10 April 1963, after a nine-month Post Shakedown Availability (PSA) in Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
Fifty-one years ago today, on the morning of 10 April 1963, USS THRESHER (SSN-593), less than two years old and the lead boat in a new class of nuclear-powered, fast-attack submarines, began deep-diving tests about 200 miles to the east of Cape Cod, MA.
Thresher, first of a class of U.S. nuclear-powered attack submarines, launched in 1960. On April 10, 1963, during sea trials after commissioning, it sank with 129 persons on board about 200 miles (300 km) off the New England coast. The sinking, considered to be the worst disaster in submarine.
Following trials, the nuclear attack submarine took part in Nuclear Submarine Exercise (NUSUBEX) 3-61 off the northeastern coast of the United States from 18 to 24 September 1961. In company...