Norman Polmar: The Death of the USS Thresher

Cover: 9781493027538 | The Death of the USS Thresher | Norman Polmar | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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A must-read for submarine buffs!

On the morning of April 10, 1963, the world's most advanced submarine was on a test dive off the New England coast when she sent a message to a support ship a thousand feet above her on the surface: experiencing minor problem . . . have positive angle . . . attempting to blow . . . . Then came the sounds of air under pressure and a garbled message: . . . test depth . . .

Last came the eerie sounds that experienced navy men knew from World War II: the sounds of a submarine breaking up and compartments collapsing.

When she first went to sea in April of 1961, the U.S. nuclear submarine Thresher was the most advanced submarine at sea, built specifically to hunt and kill Soviet submarines. In The Death of the USS Thresher, renowned naval and intelligence consultant Norman Polmar recounts the dramatic circumstances surrounding her implosion, which killed all 129 men on board, in history's first loss of a nuclear submarine.

Über den Autor

Norman Polmar has been a consultant to senior officials of the U.S. Navy and Department of Defense, and has directed studies for U.S. and foreign aerospace and shipbuilding firms. He was a member of the Secretary of the Navy's Research Advisory Committee (NRAC) and the steering group for the Secretary's analysis of the Falklands War. For four years-as an employee of the Northrop Corporation-he worked for the Navy's Deep Submergence Systems Project (DSSP), which developed advanced escape and rescue systems in the wake of the Thresher disaster. He is the author of more than thirty books on naval, aviation, and intelligence projects. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

Preface
[...] Thresher
2.A Brief Career
[...] the Yard
[...] Last Cruise
5.Inside the Thresher
[...] Early Search
7.Finding the Thresher
[...] Inquiry
9.A Sequence of Events
10.Aftermath

Appendices
[...] announcement that the Thresher is "overdue and presumed missing."
[...] first press briefing of the Thresher disaster
[...] certificate for the 129 Navymen and Civilians
aboard the Thresher on April 10, 1963
D.Report of the Thresher Court of Inquiry
E.Statement announcing the finding of the Thresher's remains
[...] 129 Navymen and Civilians who died in the Thresher

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781493027538
ISBN-10:	1493027530
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Polmar, Norman
Hersteller:	Lyons Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 14 mm
Von/Mit:	Norman Polmar
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.12.2017
Gewicht:	0,374 kg