The final 37 acoustic pings associated with the USS Thresher offer a chilling record of the submarine’s last moments, providing critical insight into the sequence of failures that led to the tragic ...
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — It goes down in the history books as one of the Navy's darkest days: April 10th, 1963. The USS Thresher sunk that day. All 129 men aboard perished. The USS Thresher became the ...
USS Thresher was the lead submarine of her class of nuclear-powered attack boats in the 1960s. Named after the thresher shark, the US Navy submarine had state-of-the-art features that made it the ...