Regarding USS Thresher (SSN-593)
USS Thresher (SSN-593)
The Navy has release a 2nd round of documents on the incident that sank USS Thresher (SSN-593), which sank off the eastern US coast in April 1963, with all hands on board.
https://news.usni.org/2020/10/28/navy-releases-second-round-of-uss-thresher-documents
Source: US Naval Institute
October 28, 2020 9:01 AM
This week, the Navy released the second 300 pages of a previously classified investigation into the April 10, 1963 loss of USS Thresher and its crew of 129 sailors off the coast of New England.
A freedom of information lawsuit from retired Navy Capt. James Bryant, a former Thresher-class submarine commander, compelled the Navy to release the documents on a rolling basis starting today.
This is the second set of 12 volumes of proceedings of the court of inquiry ordered by the commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. The first set of documents can be found here.
This is a very, very long read, if you have the time.
The first nuclear submarine lost at sea, Thresher was also the third of four submarines lost with more than 100 people aboard, the others being the Argonaut, lost with 102 aboard in World War II, the Surcouf, and the Kursk, which sank with 118 aboard in 2000. – Wiki
Submariners are a very special group of people.
Thanks to US Naval Institute for providing the links to the report.
Category: Historical, Navy
“Submariners are a very special group of people.”
^WORD^ Yes’um crazy as all hell. Got to be slightly off balance to purposely allow water to enter the tanks of a Floating Artillery Platform. I was a tween lad when this tragedy happened. Remember it well. We had just 7 days before buried Papa and I had two Cousins serving in the Navy then, one on a sub. Aunt M was going nuts awaiting word on which boat had gone down and was not convinced that her baby boy was not on that one till he showed up home on leave much later. Remember reading reading the accounts in the paper and seeing the news casts, identifying with those kids that had just lost their Dads too. More realization on how short life can be and how quickly things can go bad.
Tanks for the post Mi’Lady, might take me awhile, but I will wade thru this report, page by page. Don’t know why they had to wait this long, or wait to be sued to release this info. The full report can help act as a Tribute to these Brave Sailors and their Boat.
Ex, I get USNI snail mail and online. There was an article mentioning the release of the report but I never pursued it. Thanks for posting it Ex. The incident happened 6 months before I Joined the Navy. I remember when we were berthed over on pier 12, A diesel sub berthed across from us on the same pier. Most likely no room for them at the D&S piers on the other side of the pier 4 Geedunk stand. I think they were called smoked boats. Lunch time found me leaving my ship and requesting to come aboard the ship as I was not a summariner I could not use the word boat and was given the 10 cent tour through the sub. This was in Norfolk NOB.
Thanks, Jeff. I was in school when that happened. I was astonished by it at the time.
How could this happen? Never got an answer about that. And more recently the Russian “Kursk” sank, all hands on board. Really sad.
“Submariners are a very special group of people”
From the PJ’s in the sky to the Submariners below and everything
in between we have some very special people looking out for us.
Doing something dangerous for the thrill is one thing but doing
it for the sake of protecting others is a whole different world.
OK I’ll say it.
YOU MOTHERFUCKERS ARE COMPWWWEEEETELY NUTZZZ!!!!!
No Question. BUT that being said, THANK THE GODs for you.
Same for guys that are MARINES and those that jump outta flying machines.
ChipNASA: regarding jumping, if you have the training and a bit of experience you don’t have to OJT the first when the plane breaks. (smile)
And yes: I did mean when the plane breaks.
ALL aircraft break sooner or later. The pertinent questions are (1) how bad it’s broken, and (2) whether you’re already aloft when it breaks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6LtyFTEdis
Joe Rogan and Peter Schiff on Minimum Wage.
Visited the boat at Buffalo floating museum.
We were checking out our old ship the Little Rock.
Climbed in the hatch of the first compartment and ran through the rest.
Couldn’t get out fast enough.
Too small hatches, too thick steel between, too small compartments.
Just, no.
I remember a conversation with a couple of old paratroopers:
Me – “You willingly jump out of a functioning airplane?!” [Shudder]
Them – “You willingly get in a boat that submerges on purpose?!” [Shudder]