[AR] Re: MSR reactors.
- From: Derek Lyons <fairwater@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 14:56:29 -0700
On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 2:21 PM Ed Kelleher <Pres@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Haven't been any deaths on US boomers that I know of. Thresher, Scorpion,
San Franciso were all fast attacks, doing fast attacky things.
I made 8 patrols on a boomer.
I don't know when you were in... But just while I was in: The
Georgefish smacked a merchie in the Sea of Japan and shredded her sail
in 1981. Thomas Edison lost an argument (and her sail) with a tin can
in '82, and according to those who were there came awfully close to
being lost herself no matter what the Navy says officially. (An A
school classmate was on the helm, and my future AWEPS was on duty as
ERUL watch.) They patched her up enough to make it home, and she
pretty much went straight into PSNS for decommissioning. The Nasty Nat
took ground in the Irish Sea in '87... Easily could have been there
forever, as it was she was so badly damaged they simply decommissioned
her. No deaths, but in the latter two cases the scuttlebutt in the
Fleet was that was as much luck as anything else.
And that's just the stuff the Navy officially talks about (during that period).
D.
(655B '83-'87)
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