Cmdr. John Harvey, commanding officer of USS Thresher (SSN 593) before its tragic loss, were passed on to Lt.j.g. Thomas M. Grubish at the Submarine Birthday Ball on April 13. The dolphins are ...

Cmdr. John “Wes” Harvey, on April 23. Wes was the commanding officer of USS Thresher (SSN 593) when the submarine was lost at sea, on April 10, 1963, during sea trials. All persons aboard ...

What You Need to Know: In April 1963, the USS Thresher (SSN-593), a state-of-the-art nuclear-powered submarine, tragically sank during deep-sea trials off the coast of Massachusetts, killing all ...

Capt. Joe Meier spoke for everyone in attendance in Kittery, Maine, on Saturday at a ceremony marking the 62nd anniversary of ...

Still, two were lost to accidents. The first was the USS Thresher (SSN-593), the lead boat of a class of nuclear-powered attack submarines developed in the late 1950s. She sank during deep tests ...

The Thresher incident remains one of the most tragic days in the Navy’s history as 129 sailors and crew perished.

The tragedy that would become the infamous USS Thresher incident began on April 30, 1961, when the submarine went underway to initiate sea trials from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine.