The Death of the USS Thresher: The Story Behind History's Deadliest Submarine Disaster
by:
Norman Polmar (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780762796137 (0762796138)
Publish date: April 1st 2004
Publisher: Lyons Press
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
The Thresher came alive in 1963. It was to be a short life. Manufactured from the new “stronger steel—the so-called HY-80 steel which could withstand the pressure of 80,000 pounds per square inch before it would start pulling apart. With a submarine hull built for deeper operation the Navy would get...