Word: triton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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American International College Captain Edward L. Beach, skipper, U.S.S. Triton Sc.D. Citation: "Your most recent exploit in commanding the largest submarine in existence during an historic submerged voyage around the globe has won for you and your crew the admiration of the world you circled...
...pinned a Legion of Merit on the much-decorated chest of Navy Captain Edward Latimer Beach last week. Ned Beach, 42, had just made the kind of history that even Presidents can envy: under his command the world's largest submarine, the nuclear, 3O-knot-plus U.S.S. Triton, had completed the first underwater circumnavigation of the globe...
Nominally, the trip was a shakedown cruise, but in laying down the global underseas voyage, the Navy also prescribed a variety of psychological experiments for the crew, as well as hydrographic tests, drills in reconnaissance and evasion of detection (Triton was never sighted by ship or plane). For good measure, and possibly for good public relations, Triton followed a course close to the one sailed by Magellan...
...Triton is the first nuclear submarine designed for the submarine's classic role of scouting. Her job is to roam out on the surface hundreds of miles ahead of naval task forces, scanning the skies with powerful radar. She carries the biggest crew (about 150), and, powered by twin reactors, can dive faster and cruise farther than any of her nuclear sisters...