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The name THRESHER is from a class of large pelagic sharks of warm seas which are harmless to man and easily recognizable because the tail is longer than the combined length of body and head. This tail is whiplike and used to round up small fish on which to feed.

NICKNAME -

MOTTO - "VIS TACITA"

CLASS - (SSN-593) THRESHER Attack Submarine (1)

AWARDED - 1958

BUILDER - Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, ME

IN COMMISSION - 1961 - 1963

DISPOSITION - lost, sunk as a result of a casualty during diving tests in 1,400 fathoms of water, approximately 220 miles east of Boston, MA.

THRESHER Awards/Recognition -

THRESHER factoid - she put to sea with Skylark (ASR-20) on 10 April 1963 for deep diving exercises. In addition to her complement of 16 officers and 96 enlisted men, THRESHER carried 17 civilian technicians to observe her performance during the deep diving tests (total 129 men).

USS THRESHER (SSN-593) LINKS

USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - CSP boat tragedy page.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - SubNet THRESHER stats and photo page. [ www.subnet.com/fleet/ssn593.htm ]
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - NavSource Submarine Photo Archive.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - THRESHER Navy Vessel Register web page.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - the NavySite.de THRESHER page.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a Neohumanism.org THRESHER page.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - DANFS, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER DANFS narrative page.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER DANFS narrative page.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER DANFS narrative page. Personnel Who Perished in the Loss of Thresher.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page; this page features miscellaneous images related to USS Thresher, including artworks, insignia and construction views.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page; bow view of the submarine on the greased building ways, as workmen prepare for her launching at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, 9 July 1960.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page. Mrs. Frederick B. Warder christens the submarine, during launching ceremonies at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.....
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page; THRESHER entering the water for the first time, during launching ceremonies at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, 9 July 1960.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page. USS THRESHER (SSN-593) emblem adopted in 1960 and received in October of that year. It was accompanied with this description.....
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page; artwork by Hultberg, circa 1960, depicting the submarine's anticipated appearance when completed. It shows two torpedoes being fired from THRESHER 's midships torpedo tubes.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page; underway on the surface, circa 1961-63.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page; port bow aerial view, taken while the submarine was underway on 30 April 1961.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page; starboard broadside view, taken while the submarine was underway on 30 April 1961.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page; port broadside view, taken while the submarine was underway on 30 April 1961.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page; port broadside view, taken while the submarine was underway with water surging over her bow, 30 April 1961.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page; starboard quarter view, taken while the submarine was underway on 30 April 1961.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page; THRESHER underway, 30 April 1961; lead ship of a class of 3700-ton nuclear-powered attack submarines, THRESHER was built at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine.....
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page. Starboard bow view, taken at sea on 24 July 1961.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page. Bow-on view, taken at sea on 24 July 1961.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page. Stern-on view, taken at sea on 24 July 1961. Note upper rudder in the foreground, with draft markings painted on.....
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page. Navy ships circle in the vicinity of the site of Thresher's sinking, 15 April 1963, five days after her loss. Ships are (left to right): USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618); USS Sunbird (ASR-15); USS Warrington (DD-843), group flagship; and USS Redfin (SS-272).
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page; This page features views related to the loss of USS Thresher on 10 April 1963, the search for her wreckage and recovery of artifacts from her debris field.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page. Debris on the ocean floor 8,400 feet below the surface may be a clue to the final.....
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page. Overhead view of Thresher's upper rudder, photographed from a deep-sea vehicle deployed from USNS Mizar.....
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page. Draft markings on the topside rudder of THRESHER. Part of the port stern plane of the sunken.....
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page. Starboard side of the USS Thresher sail with portions of the hull number '593' visible.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page. Wreck mosaic of the sail. The conning station is at Arrow (1), upside down with the leading edge to ......
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page; this page features views of wreckage from USS Thresher on the sea floor some 220 miles east of Cape Cod.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page. High pressure air flask and other debris on the ocean floor in the vicinity of the USS Thresher.....
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page. Sonar Dome -- A section of a sonar dome from the bow of a Thresher class submarine photographed.....
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page. Sonar Dome -- An external portion of a sonar dome used exclusively in Thresher class submarines .....
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page; a fragment of the anchor from THRESHER located near the wreckage.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page. Insulation -- Rockwool thermal insulation photographed August 24 during the bathyscaph Trieste .....
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page. Wreck of USS Thresher (SSN-593); Photographs taken by Conrad, Lamont Laboratory's research ship, on 14 June 1963.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page. An internal watertight submarine door photographed August 24 during the bathyscaph Trieste's ...
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page. Parts of a battery recovered by the Navy's bathyscaph Trieste during the first series of dives.....
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page. Three of fifteen packages of neoprene 'O' rings recovered by drag lines from the Lamont Laboratories.....
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center THRESHER photo page. This brass pipe, with the inscription: 'JO 10 ... 3-O-5091-05; DM 263-109-61; PL-1862791 PC.75 .....
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - Military.com submarine THRESHER Homepage; Buddies, Reunions, Messages, Histories; you have to do the email/password thing, what else is new?
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a small unsigned THRESHER site. The "Ship's Roster" link has crew bios and photos.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - USS Thresher Disaster. An extensive page from the Arlington Cemetery website.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - 40th Thresher Memorial Service - on April 5, 2003, the 40th THRESHER Memorial Service was held at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a THRESHER narrative page by NavyHistory.com.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a Wikipedia.org THRESHER page.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - a USSVI Ship's Profile page w/Classification, Characteristics, Key Dates, Reunion/Association, Crew Lists (available on DeckLog), History, Internet Associations and Reunions, Photo and Patch.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - an identical page to the USSVI page above by Decklog.com.
USS THRESHER (SSN-593) - film footage of christening and shots of USS Thresher at sea.