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LOST AT SEA 10 APRIL 1963 RETURN TO LOST COLD WAR BOATS Return to REMEMBERING RETURN TO HISTORY Profile of a Submariner by Dr. Joyce Brothers (1963) |
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Image courtesy
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R 071500Z APR 98
FM COMSUBLANT NORFOLK VA//N00// TO SUBLANT SUBPAC RUEGJAI/NAVSHIPYD PORTSMOUTH NH//00// BT UNCLAS //N00000// MSGID/GENADMIN/COMSUBLANT/-/APR// SUBJ/USS THRESHER 35TH MEMORIAL// RMKS/ 1. FEW EVENTS ARE SO LOCKED IN TIME
AS THE LOSS OF USS
2. FOR OUR SHIPMATES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE,
I APPLAUD YOUR SUSTAINED
3. SAILORS REST YOUR OARS. VADM MIES// BT |
EDITORIAL - THE NEW YORK POST
RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP Thirty-five years ago this morning, the nuclear submarine USS Thresher took a test dive in deep water off Cape Cod, suffered a catastrophic mechanical failure and was lost with all hands. The Thresher was one of three American submarines lost during the Cold War. The USS Scorpion went down near the Azores in 1968 and the USS Cochino sank north of the Scandinavian peninsula in 1949. Nearly 300 submariners gave their lives so that crucial and almost entirely secret work could be done. Underwater intelligence-gathering operations - many heavily classified to this day - began as early as May 1948, when U.S. patrols began along the Siberian coast to collect information on Soviet nuclear-weapons testing programs. Perhaps the most productive of the spy mis-sions was Operation Ivy Bells, during whichspecially equipped U.S. submarines tappedinto vital Soviet communications cables fromaround 1970 until 1981, when Moscow learned of the undertaking from the American spy Ronald Pelton. (An aside: The equipment and techniques utilized in the discovery of the Titanic were developed for Ivy Bells and related undertakings.) Today, U.S. attack submarines are regularly called upon for intelligence-gathering missions - and have on several occasions launched cruise missiles at Mideast targets. Trident-missile equipped boats - the so- called "boomers" - form the backbone of America's nuclear deterrent. Whether the submarine force is properly configured to meet the Navy's post-Cold War needs is a matter of growing controversy. But that's a discussion for another time. For now, we ask only a moment of respectful remembrance for those Cold War submariners who died their silent deaths in service to their country. Copyright (c) 1998, N.Y.P. Holdings, Inc. |
Posted by Ron
Martini
Question: Does anyone recall the day of the week? It was a Wednesday! Hard to remember
because the news was not released until Thursday in the New Haven Register
and Friday in the Boston and NY papers.
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