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by
DerekL
Fri Feb 09 2001 at 20:08:42
There have been 2
Tritons
in the USN
Submarine
Service
SS
-201
Commissioned at the Portsmouth Naval Ship Yard, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in July, 1940. She was on patrol off of
Wake Island
on December 7th, 1941. Triton was the first
USN
submarine to sink a Japanese vessel by gunfire, and by September, 1942,
Triton
had sunk more Japanese tonnage than all other USN submarines operating out of
Pearl Harbor
.
USS Triton
made six war patrols against the Empire of Japan, sinking 19 Japanese ships and damaging 7 more before being lost with all hands somewhere in the Pacific Ocean in March 1943.
SS(R)N-586
This
Triton
is world famous for completing the
circumnavigation
of the globe completely submerged.From February 16 to May 10, 1960,
Triton
covered 41,500 miles, mostly at a steady 21 knots.
Triton
's
keel
was laid on May 29, 1956 at Electric Boat. She was launched on August 19, 1958 and commissioned on November 10, 1959.
Triton
was the last USN submarine to have a
conning tower
. She was also the last submarine to have any significant deck superstructure, or casing, twin screws and a stern
torpedo room
. She is the only USN submarine to have two
reactors
. On her maiden voyage she completed her famous around the world cruise.
Triton
was originally designed as a
radar
picket
submarine. She was to have operated in advance of the
fleet
, and would dive once she had spotted an incoming air raid, thus being invulnerable to attack. (The USN lost many
destroyers
in
WWII
which were operating as radar pickets, being well out from the main body of the fleet, they were vulnerable to attack, especially by
Kamikazes
.) This mission was rapidly superseded because of the development of airborne early warning aircraft. Her main role
obsolete
, too big (and noisy), and lacking the
sonars
to be an effective
attack sub
, in 1969
Triton
became the first nuclear submarine to be decomissioned.
Conning tower
USS Wahoo
Jane's Military History Nodes
Circumnavigation
Public Image Limited
Run Silent, Run Deep
Horn of the Tritons
Torpedo Room
USS Scorpion
attack sub
Wake Island
Keel
Fleet
kamikaze
Maiden Voyage
nuclear reactor
picket
submerged
Pearl Harbor
Destroyer
Artemis
Nautilus