The Submarine That Escaped Every Hunt, USS Thresher In the summer of 1942, USS Thresher prowled some of the Pacific’s most dangerous waters—hit a tanker, sank a torpedo-boat tender, and endured wave after wave of depth charges, even a grappling hook meant to drag her up. Each time she slipped away, battered but unbroken, returning to Fremantle after a patrol defined by narrow escapes. #WWII #SubmarineHistory #PacificWar #NavyHistory | The Reliable Narrator

USS Thresher (SS-200): The Most Decorated American Submarine of WWII | War History Online

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#OTD in 1961, USS Thresher (SSN 593) was commissioned. Thresher was lost with all hands on April 10, 1963 during deep-diving tests about 220 miles east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts - #USSThresher's remains were located about 8,400 feet below the surface on the sea floor. The loss of #Thresher led to the Navy establishing the Submarine Safety Program (SUBSAFE), to provide maximum reasonable assurance that submarine hulls will maintain watertight integrity, and that the boats can recover from unanti