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 ...

The Thresher incident remains one of the most tragic days in the Navy’s history as 129 sailors and crew perished. What You Need to Know: Submarines were among the most dangerous military occupations ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Monday, April 10, 2023, marks the 60th anniversary of the loss at sea with all hands of a nuclear submarine USS THRESHER (SSN-593). She was commissioned on August 3, 1961, and was undergoing tests in ...

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 ...

Upon seeing the article concerning a memorial erected in Veteran's Memorial Park in Shelton to the USS Thresher, my wife and I went to the memorial and paid our respects to the 129 men who perished ...