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Plankowner
Posts: 9164
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: Thresher report
Capt Don Ulmer sent me this link since he knows I sail aboard a Thresher class boat. We were the very first built from scratch SUBSAFE submarine as the result of the sinking.
https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20180403/uss-thresher-disaster-still-matters
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 2672
Location: New Jersey | Subject: RE: Thresher report
Ric - 2019-02-24 2:46 AMCapt Don Ulmer sent me this link since he knows I sail aboard a Thresher class boat. We were the very first built from scratch SUBSAFE submarine as the result of the sinking.https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20180403/uss-thresher-disaster-still-matters
I just checked my copy of US Navy Lineup by Class, and Flasher was way down the line of previously built Thresher Class boats. Until you mentioned it, and I checked I didn't realize how many Thresher/Permit class boats were already in commission...
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Master and Commander
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I do believe SUBSAFE applied to the 598 class FBMs. Could be wrong about the whole class but pretty sure it involved my 2 boats; 599 and 600. There were some changes made during their first overhauls and refuelings. |
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Old Salt
Posts: 272
Location: Vista, Ca. | Subject: RE: Thresher report
Barb was subsafe. But she was pretty much down on the list to get subsafe. She spent many years tied to the pier in Hawaii and got the reputation of that being because a) she wasn't subsafe or b) she was Fluckey's baby after the WW II Barb. I know when I was on her she was like the Tang class. There were parts stamped 593, 594 and 595 every so often just like 563, 564 and 565. I believe that to be in part of the mil-con contracts process. But the one thing for sure is that she sailed with a crack in her pressure hull pretty much 20 years because they could never get a good weld.
George Geno
TM1(SS)
USS Gudgeon SS 567
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Plankowner
Posts: 9164
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Thresher report
Thresher went down on April 10, 1963. Flasher was on the ways. She launched June 22 1963 and was tied up and all drawings were reworked. She was towed to Rhode Island and 13' 9" was added at the aft end of her Ops Compartment. She was towed back to EB and construction was started anew. Boats in service were retro fitted with new SUBSAFE design and EB was teaming with them.
Boats on the ways were redesigned with it added but Flasher was the first built with it. We did lots of Blow testing. Wild rides for sure.
In fact a lot that was to go into the Sturgeons was first put in Flasher though we never had an O2 plant BUT we had all the piping to have one. Pain in the butt when rigging for dive to line something up that wasn't there.
Washington was at EB for over haul and so was Henry when I got there. Took a walk through both while they were torn up. Didn't really know what I was looking at because of the mess. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1454
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I kept my area in the Missile Comp't clean. Yes, standing fire watch during the 599 and 600 overhaul was a bit dirty. Those asbestos sparks jumped right off the lit end of a cigarette. |
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Plankowner
Posts: 9164
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Thresher report
I was EB when the 600 came in. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1454
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I was Blue Crew on the 599 and 600. The Gold Crew 600 brought her into EB. Do you think it's possible our paths crossed there. It would have been more to the outside EB festivities or the YRBM. |
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Plankowner
Posts: 9164
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Thresher report
It could be entirely possible. Patti's husband reported to the Geo. Washington while at EB I may have seen , you or anyone else. There were thousands of guys there it seems. We kept mostly to the North yard. In fact I don't think the whole time there I ever went into the South yard.
I mostly knew the guys who shared the APL barges as offices close to us. We shared a barge with the Geo Bancroft and the Polk and Will Rogers were next door. We all wore the yellow hardhats and foul weather jackets. Pretty much so we didn't look like yardbirds. LOL |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1454
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I think I hid out on the barge curing a long tired weekend. One thing sticks in my memory was someone asking me if I was part of the Bancroft crew. They were getting ready to filed day the quarters. Sometimes the mind plays tricks but I don't believe this time. |
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Old Salt
Posts: 438
Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL | Subject: RE: Thresher report
Was Patti's husband on 598 new build?
My QMCS(SS) dad was briefly COB before he was commissioned.
Edited by 610ET 2019-02-27 7:09 PM
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Plankowner
Posts: 9164
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Thresher report
No, post overhaul in 1965. He and I talked about a couple of times how our paths may have crossed back then. |
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