Capt. Joe Meier spoke for everyone in attendance in Kittery, Maine, on Saturday at a ceremony marking the 62nd anniversary of the sinking of the USS Thresher: “We cannot forget what happened.” Meier, ...

EFFECTS OF THE USS THRESHER DISASTER UPON SUBMARINE SAFETY AND DEEPSUBMERGENCE CAPABILITIES IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY BY PHILIP MARTIN CALLAGHAN ...

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 ...

The USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the lead boat of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in the United States Navy. She was the US Navy's second submarine named after the thresher shark. The ...

There has never been a more urgent demand for U.S. Navy ships than right now. If you were to visit Newport News, you would see a community that is dedicated to building the world’s most complex ships ...

Nuclear submarines are some of the most impressive and technologically advanced warships of all time, and the United States Navy has a boatload of them. In fact, every submarine operated by the U.S.