The (redacted) boat (redacted) sank (redacted).
YAY! We finally have The Truth.
(PS: Submarines are “boats”)
Labor strife sabotage?
USS Thresher-1963
USS Scorpion-1968
I remember them both very well.
Well past time.
I don't take a position on whether this information should be declassified, but I want to correct the above statement. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information is excluded from the general declassification schedule.
Well, there’s a piece of history to explore.
>> he thinks there are valuable lessons to be learned.
Fortunately for me and the rest of the crew of the Scamp, the right lessons were learned. We had the exact same casualty in 1986 with the same plant failures and also at test depth. Our boat was older than Thresher so it had very few Subsafe systems, but we did have the Emergency Blow modifications that came out after Thresher’s sinking. The second blow worked and we lived.
Pass the popcorn, please... This is going to be intense...
Going to test depth is a MAJOR clue.
The Thresher is down, now pass the word.
From 593, we haven’t heard. Came the radio call from the Starlight far away, 200 miles east of Narragansett Bay.
Oh, remember the Thresher. O-o....
Lyrics by Matthew F Taylor
My Dad worked as an engineer for the Depart of the Navy in D.C. When the Thresher went down, before it hit the news, he came home from work early, about the time I was getting home from school, packed a bag and disappeared for several weeks. When he got home he said he couldn’t talk about it. But I remember he was working on extremely high pressure vessels for testing equipment.
This disaster tormented me as a child. I am glad more information will be released.
Recommended read for all NAVY and seagoing types, especially Submariners...
‘Running Critical’ The Silent War: Rickover and General Dynamics’.
Patrick Tyler..... 1986
https://www.amazon.com/Running-Critical-Rickover-General-Dynamics/dp/0060153776
I read it way back when and couldn’t put it down.
The more I read, the more ‘whizzed’ I got.
Makes good example of the term
“Remember, the low bidder built it”
One of the glaring things was a female inspector found bolts not welded in the forward hull and when shut down the builder ended up suing the Navy for their screw up as the Navy insured it and had complete inspection so the builder contended it was the Navy’s fault that their people screwed up...
Talk about some Schiff
Why do they want to keep secret something that happened 50 years ago?????
Bump for later