USS TRITON NUCLEAR SUBMARINE 1ST SUBMERGED CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE WORLD

KING111 · 11-15-17, 08:20 AM

nice video

MR_AUS · 11-16-17, 05:39 PM

Thanks for posting! Enjoyed watching that.
Interesting to see that they used the oxygen candles to breathe, I had always assumed that on nuke boats that they had oxygen generators because they had "unlimited" electricity supply. Guess that had not been invented/perfected yet!
Guess they had high confidence in that sub to take it so far away from its home port on a shake down cruise. They would be a long way from help should something go wrong, I could not imagine how bad it would be if they ran into issues off Cape Horn!

MC_Hamster · 11-19-17, 06:45 AM

It's always fascinating watching these old 50s films. There's just something about it all. You're looking at this engineering which is both state-of-the art and unbelievably antiquated all at the same time, with the cheesy old voice-over underpinning it all with that early cold-war propaganda feel

A great watch.

captgeo · 11-19-17, 02:28 PM

Great footage.

11-15-17, 08:20 AM	#1
KING111 Navy Dude Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 178 Downloads: 223 Uploads: 0	USS TRITON NUCLEAR SUBMARINE 1ST SUBMERGED CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE WORLD nice video

11-16-17, 05:39 PM	#2
MR_AUS Watch Join Date: Sep 2017 Posts: 26 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	Thanks for posting! Enjoyed watching that. Interesting to see that they used the oxygen candles to breathe, I had always assumed that on nuke boats that they had oxygen generators because they had "unlimited" electricity supply. Guess that had not been invented/perfected yet! Guess they had high confidence in that sub to take it so far away from its home port on a shake down cruise. They would be a long way from help should something go wrong, I could not imagine how bad it would be if they ran into issues off Cape Horn! __________________ https://i.imgur.com/LoGTMLb.jpg

11-19-17, 02:28 PM	#4
captgeo Samurai Navy Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Ontario,Canada Posts: 550 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 0	Great footage. __________________

11-19-17, 06:45 AM	#3
MC_Hamster Swabbie Join Date: Nov 2017 Posts: 7 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	It's always fascinating watching these old 50s films. There's just something about it all. You're looking at this engineering which is both state-of-the art and unbelievably antiquated all at the same time, with the cheesy old voice-over underpinning it all with that early cold-war propaganda feel A great watch.