USS Triton (SSN-586)
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| Ordered: | October 1955 |
| Keel laying: | May 29, 1956 |
| Launch: | 19th August 1958 |
| Commissioning: | November 10, 1959 |
| Decommissioning: | 3rd May 1969 |
| Fate: | scrapped |
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| Displacement: | 7773 ts submerged |
| Length: | 136.5 meters |
| Width: | 11.3 meters |
| Draft: | 7.2 meters |
| Drive: | Two S4G pressurized water reactors, two shafts |
| Crew: | 159-172 |
| Motto: | Nulli Secundus |
The USS Triton (SSN / SSRN-586) was a nuclear-powered submarine of the United States Navy and a Einschiffklasse . The Triton , named after a Greek god of the sea , was the first submarine to circumnavigate the world underwater.
history
The submarine was laid down at Electric Boat in May 1956 and launched in 1958. In late 1959, the US Navy officially put them into service. The name was previously used for the diesel-electric submarine USS Triton (SS-201) (1940-1943), which opened fire on a Japanese ship after Pearl Harbor as the first American warship.
The boat was specially designed and built as a nuclear powered radar outpost submarine ( SSRN for Ship Submersible Radar Nuclear , called Radar picket nuclear submarine ) and should be the lead ship of a whole class of boats that were to support the carrier combat groups of the US Navy in this function . However, the entire concept of the radar outpost submarine soon turned out to be obsolete, which is why the Triton remained a single ship and did not even perform its original task for long (see below).
The Triton could travel under water at a top speed of approx. 27 kn (50 km / h).
Circumnavigation
On February 16, 1960, the USS Triton (SSN-586) began her maiden voyage. Eight days later, when the boat reached the Saints Peter and Saint Pauls rocks , the crew learned that a circumnavigation of the world was planned. This lasted until April 25, when the boat again sighted the Saints Peter and Saint Pauls rocks. The Triton only appeared once. This was only done for medical reasons, as a crew member had to be brought off board due to kidney stones . For this first underwater circumnavigation of the earth, the boat received the Presidential Unit Citation , Commander Edward L. Beach, Jr. the Legion of Merit .
Later operations
This was followed by a first overhaul, as is standard after the maiden voyage ( post-shakedown availability ). In August 1960, the Triton was relocated to European waters for NATO exercises, including a visit to Bremerhaven . In 1961 further exercises followed in the Atlantic. In the same year its designation was changed from SSRN to SSN ( Ship Submersible Nuclear ), in 1962 it was converted into a hunting submarine in the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard . In their shipyard, the reactor was refilled and further overhauls followed by 1964. From Norfolk , Virginia , the Triton went on further voyages in the Atlantic.
Decommissioning
After budget cuts, an overhaul planned in 1967 was put on hold and the Triton was deactivated from October 1968. The official decommissioning followed in 1969. The submarine remained in Norfolk until 1980, followed in 1986 by transfer to Bremerton , Washington , where it was scrapped from 2007 as part of the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard . On November 30, 2009, the scrapping was officially declared over.
Web links
- History of Triton in DANFS (English)
- Private side over the Triton (English)
- Pictures of the Triton at navsource.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eike Fenzel: Secret project of the US Navy 50,000 kilometers under the sea . one day , October 26, 2012; accessed: October 28, 2012
- ^ Samuel Loring Morison: United States Naval Institute Proceedings, US Naval Battle Force Changes January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2009