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1963 - NR Memo Concerning Brazed Welding in Thresher
Naval Reactors
SecNav (FOIA)
2022
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Starting in 2020, the US Navy started publicly releasing Court of Inquiry Proceedings concerning the loss of Thresher on April 10, 1963. This is complete list of all released documentation as of May 2024. These files are downloaded from SecNav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom
Interim Release 19 on 8/16/2022 included this NR pink 'off-the-record' memo dated 19 April 1963 concerning brazed welding documenting a meeting after the loss of Thresher at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard by NR and BUSHIPS.
USS Thresher Interim Release 19 - other content
NR Replies to telegrams received from public regarding loss of Thresher
Rickover letters to families of Thresher crew
List of Thresher Crew + city and state of next of kin
Post Construction work on Thresher