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To: Lower Deck

USS Thresher, USS Scorpion


36 posted on 07/13/2020 2:53:33 PM PDT by RitchieAprile (available monkeys looking for the change..)
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Thresher was lost doing a test dive after a yard period due to a seawater pipe failing under the scram breakers and procedures at the time. Before subsafe and level 1 quality control QC was developed. Scorpion was lost depending on which story you believe, off the Azores Islands. One says battery well explosion and one a hot runner commander trying to make Captain. The Russians had other plans. The families of Scorpion’s crew were waiting at the pier for her to pull in. It never arrived. I knew people who served on Thresher, none on the Scorpion. A shame about the Bonhomme Richard at in any case.


55 posted on 07/13/2020 3:19:55 PM PDT by Equine1952
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