What You Need to Know: Commissioned in 1961, the USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the most advanced nuclear-powered attack submarine of its time, designed to dive deeper and operate more quietly than any ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The disaster forced safety improvements in the design and quality control of all U.S. Navy submarines. (This article first appeared in January.) Last fall, the U.S. Navy ...

Wayne Lavoie marked his 28th birthday 59 years ago, on Sunday, April 10. He had a job he loved as a submariner in the U.S. Navy, he was married to his high school sweetheart Gerine, or Gerry, and they ...

Key Points and Summary - The 1963 loss of the nuclear submarine USS Thresher with all 129 personnel aboard was a pivotal disaster that transformed U.S. Navy safety culture. -The submarine was lost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thresher Memorial Flag in Kittery, Maine This Monday, April 10, 2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the Kittery-built Navy ...

KITTERY, Maine — The 55th USS Thresher (SSN-593) Memorial Service honoring the men lost aboard USS Thresher and their SUBSAFE legacy will be held Saturday, April 7, at the R.W. Traip Academy, 12 ...

On 10 April 1963 the USS Thresher (SSN-593), a nuclear-powered submarine, sank 220 miles off the coast of Cape Cod with 129 aboard. My father’s cousin, George Ronald Kroner, a 21-year-old sailor, was ...

April 10, 1963 — During a routine test dive 220 miles off Cape Cod, the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Thresher (SSN-593) mysteriously sinks and implodes. All 129 crew and shipyard personnel ...

Oceanographer Robert Ballard undertook a secret mission funded by the U.S. Navy to locate two sunken nuclear submarines from the Cold War era, the USS Thresher and the USS Scorpion. The mission aimed ...

This Monday, April 10, 2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the Kittery-built Navy submarine USS Thresher’s horrific loss during the height of the Cold War. In recent years, this publication has run ...