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Photographer: Stanley and Terrie Howard
Taken: May 16, 2009
Caption: Cold War Submarine Memorial Marker
Additional Description: The verse at the bottom is from Leslie Nelson Jennings' "Lost Harbor."

The marker itself reads: In Memorium To those who sacrificed their lives while serving in and supporting our submarine forces during the Cold War.
USS Thresher (SSN 593)
Lost at sea with all hands
April 10, 1963

USS Scorpian (SSN 589)
Lost at sea with all hands
June 2, 1968
There is a port of no return, where ships May ride at anchor for a little space And the, some starless night, the cable slips, Leaving an eddy at the mooring place..... Gulls, veer no longer. Sailor, rest your oar. No tangled wreckage will be washed ashore.
Submitted: June 4, 2009, by Stanley and Terrie Howard of Greer, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p65787
File Size: 1.085 Megabytes

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