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USS TRITON submarine
Commissioned in 1959, USS Triton (SSN 586) was designed
as a radar picket submarine, and featured two nuclear
reactors, two screws, a knife-edge bulbous bow, and the
largest sail ever for an American submarine to house its
large radar dish. Triton completed the first submerged
circumnavigation of the globe in May 1960.
At the time of her commissioning in 1959, Triton was the
largest, most powerful, and most expensive submarine
ever built at $109 million excluding the cost of nuclear
fuel and reactors ($956 million today.)
USS Triton
had the distinction of being the only US submarine
powered by two nuclear reactors.
In the early 1960s, she was the first vessel
to execute a submerged circumnavigation of the Earth.
Triton's
mission as a radar picket submarine was made obsolete
after two years by the introduction of the carrier-based
Grumman WF-2 Tracer airborne early warning aircraft in
1964. The SSR/SSRN mission was quickly phased out.
USS Triton was converted to an attack submarine in 1962
and became the flagship for the Commander, Submarine
Forces, U.S. Atlantic Fleet in 1964. She was
decommissioned in 1969, the first U.S. nuclear submarine
to be taken out of service.
Triton's
sail superstructure was saved from the recycling process
and is now part of the USS Triton Submarine Memorial
Park located on Port of Benton Boulevard in Richland,
Washington.
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27" long (1/200 scale)
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Learn
more about the USS Triton here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tullibee_(SSN-597)
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