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The United States Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

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USS Triton (SSRN-586)

US Navy radar picket submarine

USS Triton (SSRN/SSN-586), the only member of her class, was a nuclear powered radar picket submarine in the United States Navy. She was the only Western submarine powered by two nuclear reactors. Triton was the second submarine and the fourth vessel of the United States Navy to…
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Operation Sandblast

1960 US Navy and world's first submerged circumnavigation

Operation Sandblast was the code name for the first submarine circumnavigation of the world. It was executed by the United States Navy nuclear-powered radar picket submarine USS Triton (SSRN-586) in 1960 under the command of Captain Edward L. Beach Jr.
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