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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97555

Loss of USS Thresher (SSN-593), April 1963


Navy ships circle in the vicinity of the site of Thresher's sinking, 15 April 1963, five days after her loss.
Ships are (left to right): USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN-618); USS Sunbird (ASR-15); USS Warrington (DD-843), group flagship; and USS Redfin (SS-272).
Photographed by PHCS Parker.

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

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28 March 2001