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[quote][b][size=200]Navy Ordered to Review, Release Documents Related to USS Thresher Submarine Implosion[/size][/b]
20 Feb 2020
Portsmouth Herald, N.H. | By Hadley Barndollar

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Navy to begin releasing unclassified documents in relation to the USS Thresher, the nuclear submarine that imploded 57 years ago, taking the lives of 129, and forever changing submarine safety.

It was the country's worst nuclear submarine disaster in history when Thresher (SSN-593) did not surface while conducting deep dive exercises 220 miles off Cape Cod on April 10, 1963. The vessel imploded, and its shattered hull remains more than 8,000 feet underwater today.

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Link: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/01/30/uss-thresher-memorial-approved-arlington-national.html?ESRC=eb_190131.nl

[url=https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/11/16/senators-push-uss-thresher-memorial-arlington-national-cemetery.html]Portsmouth Herald/Military.com[/url]

[quote][b][size=200]Senators Push for USS Thresher Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery[/size][/b]
16 Nov 2018
Portsmouth Herald, N.H. | By Hadley Barndollar

KITTERY -- U.S. senators from three New England states recently wrote a letter urging Secretary of the Army Mark Esper to consider the USS Thresher Arlington National Cemetery Memorial Project, to establish a monument honoring the 129 men who perished aboard the submarine.

USS Thresher sank off the coast of New England April 10, 1963. The submarine was built and maintained at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Angus King, I-Maine, Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., wrote the recent letter, asking for commemoration of the 16 officers, 96 sailors and 17 civilians who lost their lives when Thresher experienced sank during a post-maintenance sea trial dive.(...SNIPPED)[/quote]