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When I was at new construction at EB there was no love lost between Portsmouth and EB, though there were a few problems at EB as well. We had one major incident of sabotage when a major wire way was completely cut through very carefully right under a holding strap.

The result of the Thresher sinking was Portsmouth never built another boat. They completed what was on their ways and all the work they got after that was repair after an extensive retraining program.

Rickover was always going through the yard looking at everything. He rode each boat on it's first sea trial. He was aboard for 3 days. Hated officers always had time for the enlisted as long as they knew their stuff. He realized that the crew operated the sub not the officers. He was exacting though.

EB did a good job on us despite the fact that the push was to get the boomers out the door. We were one of only 3 fast boats there and were the oldest design. Sturgeon and Narwhal were the other two. NR-1 was there, too.

Thresher did some remarkable things as a test platform before she sank like being the subject of an intense depth charging to test shock mountings and floating decks.

SS Guy

The result of the Thresher sinking was Portsmouth never built another boat. They completed what was on their ways and all the work they got after that was repair after an extensive retraining program.

IIRC, there were some severe (union) labor problems while the Thresher was being built. I'd heard from a couple sources that the loss was caused by a valve stem being cut most of the way through.