USS Thresher SSN 593
 

Forty-nine years ago today, USS THRESHER (SSN-593) and 129 men were lost in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Cape Cod. Please take a moment to remember their sacrifice and the sacrifice of all those who remain on eternal patrol.


wild bill

RIP good sirs still on patrol.

RIP

It seems like just yesterday to me ...

I joined the Navy March 1962 served a year on a cruiser as radarman and they put her out of commission in March 1963 and then I recieved orders to report aboard the USS Salmon SS-573 a radar picket submarine on April 6th 1963.

49 years ago I was a mess cook on the Salmon when I heard the news the Thresher had been lost. I hadn't even been to sea on a submarine yet, but I was too busy washing dishes to worry.

My mother was a different story however lol