USS Tresher (SSN-593) submarine

Plastic/resin model kit for building the USS Thresher (SSN-593)

• Scale 1:144
• 590mm long
• 69 parts
• Photo-etched parts included
• 1 marking option
• Wooden base with brass brackets
• not built/not painted
• Paint and glue not included

The USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the lead boat of her class of attack nuclear submarines in the United States Navy. Sadly, it also became the first nuclear submarine in the World, lost at sea. SSN-593 sank in 1963, during deep-diving tests in the North Atlantic, having 129 sailors onboard. After the tragedy, U.S.Navy launched radical submarine safety program known as SUBSAFE.