More: Navy releases documents on lost nuclear sub, USS Thresher This surprised me ... launched a board of inquiry to determine the cause of the disaster, thru hearings conducted at the Kittery ...

Incredibly, more than a half-century later, details of the Thresher disaster ... underlying cause of the Thresher sinking 55 years ago and the collisions last summer involving the USS John S.

April 10, 1963 — During a routine test dive 220 miles off Cape Cod, the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Thresher ... s worst submarine disaster? No wonder its cause has become the Everest ...

Jim Bryant, who served on board three Thresher-class subs and commanded the USS Guardfish (SSN 612 ... it could have ruled out major flooding as a cause of the disaster, since the resonances ...

What You Need to Know: In 1963, the USS Thresher (SSN-593), a nuclear ... to a piping system failure, the exact cause remains uncertain. -This disaster led to the creation of the U.S. Navy's ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A U.S. District Court judge ordered the Navy to start releasing unclassified documents related to the sinking of USS ... disaster. Retired Navy Capt. James Bryant, a former ...

While the exact cause remains uncertain ... USS Thresher – The Worst U.S. Submarine Disaster When USS Thresher was launched on July 9, 1960, some in the U.S. Navy considered it to be the ...

More: Here's what a retired Naval officer found after he sued for documents on the USS Thresher There has long been speculation as to what caused this disaster ... more on cause of April 1963 ...

In this July 9, 1960, file photo, the U.S. Navy nuclear powered attack submarine USS Thresher is launched bow ... into the deadliest submarine disaster in U.S. history on Wednesday, but the ...

And the implosion of the USS Thresher submarine in 1963. All were tragedies. But a retired Navy captain believes it's time for further scrutiny of the disaster that's least-known of the three. " ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The disaster forced safety improvements ... pages from the official inquiry into the sinking of the USS Thresher (SSN-593) were released, the Navy said the ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Navy began releasing documents from the investigation into the deadliest submarine disaster in ... into the sinking of the USS Thresher on April 10, 1963.