Triton USS (Submarine)

[john sefton]

Submarine of the Triton Class. No SSN 586.
Built by General Dynamics (Electric Boat). Laid down 29 May 1956. Launched 19 August 1958. Commissioned 10 November 1958. Atlantic Reserve Fleet.
Displacement 5.940 tons standard. 6.670 tons submerged. Length 447ft overall. Beam 37ft. draught 24ft.
Steam Turbines by General Electric of 34.000shp driving 2 shafts giving 27 knots surface and 20 knots submerged. 2 Pressurized‑water reactors.
Crew of 13 officers and 146 ratings.
6 torpedo tubes 2lin. (533mm) 4 bow and 2 stern, Mk 60. Radar SPS‑26. Sonars BQS‑4. Fire control 1 Mk 101. Torpedo fire control system.

FURTHER INFORMATION from Auke Palmhof.
Due to cutbacks in defense spending, as well as the expense of operating her twin nuclear reactors, Triton's scheduled 1967 overhaul was canceled, and the submarine—along with 60 other vessels—was slated for inactivation. While Triton's twin reactor plant was designed to be refueled by a submarine tender like other U.S. nuclear submarines, because of the complexity of her zirconium-clad fuel elements, Triton's previous re-fueling had been done in a shipyard during her 1962–1964 overhaul. Although new fuel elements were procured and available for installation, Triton's overhaul was canceled, a source of controversy. One speculation suggests that the cancellation of Triton's overhaul allowed funds to be redirected for the repairs to the supercarrier Forrestal which had been extensively damaged off Vietnam.

From October 1968 through May 1969, she underwent preservation and deactivation processes, and she was decommissioned on 3 May 1969. Triton became the U.S. Navy's first nuclear-powered submarine to be taken out of service, and second in the world, after the Soviet Navy's November-class submarine K-27 in 1968.[

On 6 May 1969, Triton departed New London under tow and proceeded to Norfolk, Virginia, where she was placed in the reserve fleet. She remained berthed at Norfolk or at the St. Julien's Creek Annex of Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Virginia, into 1993. She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Registry on 30 April 1986. In August 1993, the hulks of the ex-Triton and the ex-Ray were towed by the salvage tug Bolster to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (PNSY), in Bremerton, Washington, arriving on 3 September 1993, to await their turn in the Nuclear Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program (SRP). Effective 1 October 2007, ex-Triton landed on the keel resting blocks in the drydock basin to begin recycling. The long delay in the disposal of ex-Triton has been attributed to the complexity of her dual reactor plant. Final recycling was completed effective 30 November 2009.

Triton was the 2003 inductee into the Submarine Hall of Fame following her nomination by the Tidewater chapter and Hampton Roads Base of the United States Submarine Veterans, Inc. (USSVI). A shadow box filled with Triton memorabilia was placed in Alcorn Auditorium of Ramage Hall located at the U.S. Navy Submarine Learning Center, Naval Station Norfolk.

Research from Ships and Aircraft of the US Fleet by N Polmar.
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