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USS Triton, needed high speed to shadow carrier groups
by cpleppert 13y ago
USS Triton, needed high speed to shadow carrier groups
- hudibras 13y agoI would have also accepted: "needed two reactors because it was the only USN submarine with two shafts."
- mpyne 13y agoTechnically, you mean the only USN SSN with two shafts, but even that is incorrect. Nautilus was a conventionally-driven submarine with counter-rotating screws just like its diesel-electric WWII-era forebears. The first single-shaft U.S. submarine was a diesel research vessel, USS Albacore, which proved the feasibility of many innovations which were later ported over to the nuclear submarine fleet. USS Skipjack was the first nuclear submarine to include most of those features, including single-screw design.