Fifth Atomic Submarine
GROTON (Connecticut), August 10.
The biggest submarine ever built, the atomic-powered U.S.S Triton, will be launched at Groton on August 19, within a stone’s throw of the ways from which the U.S.S. Nautilus slid into the Thames river in January 1954.
Triton will be the fifth atomic submarine to be launched by the United States. Three more are being built. Compared to the 319-fool, 3200-ton Nautilus, the Triton will be 447 feet long, with a displacement of 5900 tons and will be the first submarine with two nuclear reactors. They will be water-cooled, the same type which propels the Nautilus and U.S.S. Skate, but of more modern design. • The Triton, which must go off the ways with part of its superstructure incomplete because of its enormous size, is a radarpicket submarine which will serve as a “private eye” for the United States surface and undersea fleet. The huge Triton, when she is outfitted and after completing sea trials, will join the United States Atomic Submarine Division, which was created at Groton last June. It is commanded by Captain Eugene Wilkinson, the first skipper of the Nautilus.
Now operating in this division are the Nautilus, the Seawolf and the Skate.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28661, 11 August 1958, Page 9
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