Wayne Lavoie marked his 28th birthday 59 years ago, on Sunday, April 10. He had a job he loved as a submariner in the U.S. Navy, he was married to his high school sweetheart Gerine, or Gerry, and they ...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement on the U.S. Navy’s release of approximately 4,000 pages of ...

KITTERY, Maine — As they read the names and displayed photos of the crew lost when USS Thresher (SSN 593) sunk, the only other sounds were the tolling of the bell for each man and bagpipes playing ...

A memorial will be dedicated this fall in Arlington National Cemetery in memory of the USS Thresher, a submarine that was lost off the New England coast more than 55 years ago.The memorial was ...

WEBVTT WMUR’S ANDY HERSHBERGER HAS THE STORY OF THE DISASTER AND ITS LEGACY. >> WHAT MAMA WAS ABOUT TO REVEAL TO US WAS THE UNTHINKABLE. ANDY: SHE REMEMBERS EVERY DETAIL ABOUT THE DAY. CAROL NORTON ...

On April 10, 1963, the American nuclear submarine USS Thresher (SSN 593), the world’s most advanced hunter-killer submarine crushed at a depth of 2,400 feet killing all 129 onboard during a routine ...

A retired U.S. Navy submarine commander sued the Navy to release an official report on the sinking of the USS Thresher—and won. Thresher sank in April 1963, lost with all hands, but there has never ...

The Thresher dolphins, the submarine warfare qualification device worn by the late Lt. Cmdr. John Harvey, commanding officer of USS Thresher (SSN 593) before its tragic loss, were passed on to Lt.j.g.

Here’s What You Need to Know: Although the loss of Thresher to eternal patrol was a painful one, the reforms undertaken by the Navy ensured the 129 lives lost would not be in vain. In the United ...

A bow view of the nuclear submarine Thresher (SSN-593), 24 July 1961. US Naval History and Heritage Command photo. A memorial to the 129 men who lost their lives aboard submarine USS Thresher (SSN-593 ...

Nearly six decades ago, the U.S. Navy experienced one of its worst accidents of the postwar era. The nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine USS Thresher sank to the bottom of the Atlantic in the spring ...