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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97559

Wreck of USS Thresher (SSN-593)


"Starboard side of the USS Thresher sail with portions of the hull number '593' visible." Photographed from a deep-sea vehicle deployed from USNS Mizar (T-AGOR-11).
The original photograph bears the date October 1964. Quoted text is from the caption released with that print.
See Photo # NH 97544 for a view of the starboard side of the sail, with hull numbers, taken prior to Thresher's loss.

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

Online Image: 136KB; 590 x 765 pixels

 

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28 March 2001