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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97557

Wreck of USS Thresher (SSN-593)


Overhead view of Thresher's upper rudder, photographed from a deep-sea vehicle deployed from USNS Mizar (T-AGOR-11). The view shows draft markings on the rudder side and a navigation light at its top.
The original photograph bears the date October 1964. Thresher was lost on 10 April 1963.

See Photo # NH 97546 for a view of this rudder taken prior to the submarine's loss.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 595 pixels

 

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28 March 2001