Retired Capt. James Bryant sued the Navy in 2019 ... On April 30, 1961, the USS Thresher went underway to begin her initial sea trials from the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine.

Her husband, Paul Currier, 40, was a civilian machinist on the USS Thresher, the world’s most advanced nuclear submarine, which had left the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard the previous day for diving ...

The captain of the nuclear submarine USS Thresher, which was also the name of an earlier submarine that served in World War II, was Lt. Cmdr John Wesley Harvey, who earlier had worked as an ...

Cmdr. John “Wes” Harvey, on April 23. Wes was the commanding officer of USS Thresher (SSN 593) when the submarine was lost at sea, on April 10, 1963, during sea trials. All persons aboard ...

The Navy began releasing documents from the investigation into the deadliest submarine disaster in U.S. history on Wednesday, but the Navy said the documents released under a court order ...

Fifty years ago, on April 10, 1963, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher (SSN-593) sank in the Atlantic, killing the 129 men on board. Among them was a Norwich man, 26-year-old Maurice Frank ...

The Thresher dolphins, the submarine warfare qualification device worn by the late Lt. Cmdr. John Harvey, commanding officer of USS Thresher (SSN 593) before its tragic loss, were passed on to Lt ...

Though more lives were lost in the USS Thresher's tragic nuclear submarine ... Radio navigation existed, but Capt. Edward H. Watson and his flagship's navigator, Lt. Cmdr. Donald Hunter, didn ...