The Death Of The Uss Thresher

Author : Norman Polmar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762766131
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Death of the USS Thresher written by Norman Polmar and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the morning of April 10, 1963, the world's most advanced submarine was on a test dive off the New England coast when she sent a message to a support ship a thousand feet above her on the surface: experiencing minor problem . . . have positive angle . . . attempting to blow . . . Then came the sounds of air under pressure and a garbled message: . . . test depth . . . Last came the eerie sounds that experienced navy men knew from World War II: the sounds of a submarine breaking up and compartments collapsing.When she first went to sea in April of 1961, the U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher was the most advanced submarine at sea, built specifically to hunt and kill Soviet submarines. In The Death of the USS Thresher, renowned naval and intelligence consultant Norman Polmar recounts the dramatic circumstances surrounding her implosion, which killed all 129 men on board, in history's first loss of a nuclear submarine. This revised edition of Polmar's 1964 classic is based on interviews with the Thresher's first command officer, other submarine officers, and the designers of the submarine. Polmar provides recently declassified information about the submarine, and relates the loss to subsequent U.S. and Soviet nuclear submarine sinkings, as well as to the escape and rescue systems developed by the Navy in the aftermath of the disaster. The Death of the USS Thresher is a must-read for the legions of fans who enjoyed the late Peter Maas's New York Times best-seller The Terrible Hours.

Author : Norman Polmar
Publisher : Philadelphia : Chilton Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Death of the Thresher written by Norman Polmar and published by Philadelphia : Chilton Books. This book was released on 1964 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Submarine disaster of April 10, 1963.

Author : Stephen Paul Johnson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Silent Steel written by Stephen Paul Johnson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-01-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close-up look at the untold story of the 1968 tragedy describes the Scorpion's final voyage, the discovery of the submarine's shattered hull, and the U.S. Navy's efforts to unravel the mystery.

Author : Peter Maas
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061014591
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Terrible Hours written by Peter Maas and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-08-08 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a detailed account of U.S. Navy officer Charles "Swede" Momsen's attempts to save thirty-three men who were trapped in a sunken submarine during the first days of World War II

Author : John Bentley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Thresher Disaster written by John Bentley and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce Rule
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781608881208
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Why the Uss Scorpion (Ssn 589) Was Lost written by Bruce Rule and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their official report of 29 January 1970, the SCORPION Structural Analysis Group (SAG), which included the Navy's leading experts in submarine design, submarine structures, and the effect of underwater explosions, advised the Navy Court of Inquiry (COI) that the US nuclear submarine SCORPION was lost on 22 May 1968 becase of the violent explosion of the main storage battery. The COI disregarded that assessment and concluded SCORPION was lost because of the "explosion of (a) large charge weight externalto the submarine's pressure hull." That erroneous conclusion which, by default, has become the Navy's explanation for the tragedy, contributed to the conspiracy theory that SCORPION was sunk by a Soviet torpedo. This book includes six letters sent to the Navy from 2009 to 2011. These letters provide the results of the first reanalysis in 40 yeears of acoustic detections of the loss of SCORPION. This reanalysis confirms the 1970 SAG battery-explosion assessment and provides important new information on the loss of SCORPION. The author was the lead acoustic analyst at the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) for 42 years, ending in 2007. ONI did not receive any SCORPION acoustic data until the author provided it in October 2009. The book includes a prologue signed by 96 members of the Scorpion families asking the Navy to bring forth further information on the causes of the tragedy.

Author : Bruce Rule
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781608881680
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Why the USS Thresher (SSN 593) Was Lost written by Bruce Rule and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative explanation of the tragic loss of USS THRESHER (SSN 593) with her entire complement of 129 sailors and shipyard personnel on April 10, 1963.

Author : Norman Polmar
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 159797319X
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Cold War Submarines written by Norman Polmar and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Submarines had a vital, if often unheralded, role in the superpower navies during the Cold War. Their crews carried out intelligence-collection operations, sought out and stood ready to destroy opposing submarines, and, from the early 1960s, threatened missile attacks on their adversary's homeland, providing in many respects the most survivable nuclear deterrent of the Cold War. For both East and West, the modern submarine originated in German U-boat designs obtained at the end of World War II. Although enjoying a similar technology base, by the 1990s the superpowers had created submarine fleets of radically different designs and capabilities. Written in collaboration with the former Soviet submarine design bureaus, Norman Polmar and K. J. Moore authoritatively demonstrate in this landmark study how differing submarine missions, antisubmarine priorities, levels of technical competence, and approaches to submarine design organizations and management caused the divergence.

Author : United States. Navy. Atlantic Fleet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book United States Ship Thresher (SSN 593) written by United States. Navy. Atlantic Fleet and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Theodore Roscoe
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 9780553238822
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Pig Boats written by Theodore Roscoe and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1983-06-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: