586 natgeo 11 1960 00 smThe Journal of the National Geographic society of November 1960 brought us a story about the USS TRITON (SSRN/SSN 586) and her historic submerged circumnavigation of the globe in the Spring of 1960. The mission, in Commanding Officer CAPT Edward Beach's own words, '...was secret and unprecedented: To circumnavigate the globe along the route Ferdinand Magellan took 441 years before; to do so submerged, unsupported, and undetected; and to bring back new knowledge about the oceans, our ship, and ourselves."

If you aren't familiar with the Triton's incredible story, you can find it at SSN 586 >> THE LOGROOM >> ARCHIVES >> MISCELLANEOUS.

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