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The Navy this week released hundreds of pages of previously undisclosed documents of testimony from the classified investigation into the sinking of the USS Thresher, which nearly 60 years later remains the worst submarine disaster in U.S. history.
All 129 men aboard — 112 sailors and 17 shipyard personnel — died when the submarine sank during a deep dive test on April 10, 1963, about 220 miles east of Cape Cod. The Navy has said the most likely explanation is that a ruptured seawater pipe in the submarine’s engine room caused catastrophic flooding and ultimately caused the submarine’s nuclear reactor to shut down.
See also;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_%28SSN-589%29
USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Skipjack-class nuclear powered submarine that served in the United States Navy and the sixth vessel of the U.S. Navy to carry that name.
Scorpion was lost on 22 May 1968, with 99 crewmen dying in the incident. She is one of two nuclear submarines the U.S. Navy has lost, the other being USS Thresher.[3] It was one of four mysterious submarine disappearances in 1968, the others being the Israeli submarine INS Dakar, the French submarine Minerve, and the Soviet submarine K-129.
The Navy this week released hundreds of pages of previously undisclosed documents of testimony from the classified investigation into the sinking of the USS Thresher, which nearly 60 years later remains the worst submarine disaster in U.S. history.
All 129 men aboard — 112 sailors and 17 shipyard personnel — died when the submarine sank during a deep dive test on April 10, 1963, about 220 miles east of Cape Cod. The Navy has said the most likely explanation is that a ruptured seawater pipe in the submarine’s engine room caused catastrophic flooding and ultimately caused the submarine’s nuclear reactor to shut down.
See also;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Scorpion_%28SSN-589%29
USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Skipjack-class nuclear powered submarine that served in the United States Navy and the sixth vessel of the U.S. Navy to carry that name.
Scorpion was lost on 22 May 1968, with 99 crewmen dying in the incident. She is one of two nuclear submarines the U.S. Navy has lost, the other being USS Thresher.[3] It was one of four mysterious submarine disappearances in 1968, the others being the Israeli submarine INS Dakar, the French submarine Minerve, and the Soviet submarine K-129.