The Last Time A U.S. Navy Submarine Sunk An Enemy Ship In Combat

While it’s been almost a century since the last kill by an American submarine, other navies have done so more recently.
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The Classified Sinking of the Submarine USS Thresher

USS Thresher was the lead submarine of her class of nuclear-powered attack boats in the 1960s. Named after the thresher shark, the US Navy submarine had state-of-the-art features that made it the ...
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What The 37 Pings Reveal About The Death Throes Of The USS Thresher

The final 37 acoustic pings associated with the USS Thresher offer a chilling record of the submarine’s last moments, providing critical insight into the sequence of failures that led to the tragic ...
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Remembering and learning from the USS Thresher, 57 years later

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — It goes down in the history books as one of the Navy's darkest days: April 10th, 1963. The USS Thresher sunk that day. All 129 men aboard perished. The USS Thresher became the ...