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The name TRITON is from a Greek demigod of the sea who was the son of Poseidon and Amphitrite. Triton, who possessed a man’s body above the waist and that of a fish below, used his conch-shell trumpet alternately to summon storms and to still the sea.

NICKNAME -

MOTTO - "NULLI SECUNDUS"

CLASS - (SSRN-586) TRITON Radar Picket Submarine (1)

RECLASS - (SSN-586) TRITON Attack Submarine - March, 1961

AWARDED -

BUILDER - Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corporation, Groton, CT

IN COMMISSION - 1959 - 1969

DISPOSITION - stricken, to be disposed of by submarine recycling at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA, scheduled to begin in 2004.

TRITON Awards/Recognition - received both a Presidential Unit Citation and a Navy Unit Commendation during her service with the fleet.

TRITON factoid - she completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the earth in May, 1960.

USS TRITON (SSRN/SSN-586) LINKS

USS TRITON (SSN-586) - SubNet TRITON stats and photo page. [ www.subnet.com/fleet/ssn586.htm ]
USS TRITON (SSN-586) - TRITON Navy Vessel Register web page.
USS TRITON (SSN-586) - the NavySite.de TRITON page.
USS TRITON (SSN-586) - a Neohumanism.org TRITON page.
USS TRITON (SSN-586) - Military.com submarine TRITON Homepage; Buddies, Reunions, Messages, Histories; you have to do the email/password thing, what else is new?
USS TRITON (SSRN-586) - NavSource Submarine Photo Archive.
USS TRITON (SSRN-586) - DANFS, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
USS TRITON (SSRN-586) - a U.S. Navy Historical Center TRITON DANFS narrative page.
USS TRITON (SSRN-586) - a Wikipedia.org TRITON page.
USS TRITON (SSRN/SSN-586) - historic photos, crew list with e-mail addresses, and message board for TRITON by Garry Gray.
USS TRITON (SSRN/SSN-586) - a USSVI Ship's Profile page w/Classification, Characteristics, Key Dates, Reunion/Association, Crew Lists (available on DeckLog), History, Internet Associations and Reunions, Photo and Patch.
USS TRITON (SSRN/SSN-586) - an identical page to the USSVI page above by Decklog.com.