Operation Sandblast was the code name for the first submerged circumnavigation of the world, executed by the United States Navy nuclear-powered radar...
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first vessel to execute a submerged circumnavigation of the Earth in Operation Sandblast. Triton accomplished this objective during her shakedown cruise while...
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Sandblasting, sometimes known as abrasive blasting, is the operation of forcibly propelling a stream of abrasive material against a surface under high...
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the Cold War exhibit at the U.S. Navy Museum in Washington, DC. Operation Sandblast Great White Fleet Nuclear powered cruisers of the United States Navy...
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passage of all three great capes. Operation Sandblast; 1960; USS Triton; first underwater circumnavigation. Operation Sea Orbit; 1964; USS Enterprise,...
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first vessel to execute a submerged circumnavigation of the Earth (Operation Sandblast), doing so in 1960. Nautilus, with a pressurized water reactor (PWR)...
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ceremony (with "Davy Jones" with yellow cape and a plunger as sceptre) aboard the USS Triton, 24 February 1960 as part of the Operation Sandblast cruise...
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especially in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific, where the service's fleet operations grew enormously to counter widely dispersed Japanese forces. As late as...
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submarine USS Triton circumnavigated the globe in 60 days, 21 hours for Operation Sandblast. The current circumnavigation record in a powered boat of 60 days...
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CMA CGM Magellan, a container ship Project Magellan, also known as Operation Sandblast, the first submarine circumnavigation of the world, undertaken in...
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claimed by the US Navy's USS Triton nuclear-powered submarine during Operation Sandblast in 1960 and of the current record by a sailing boat.[citation needed]...
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Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service Operation Sandblast Use of drugs in warfare Klesges, R. C (2001-03-01). "The association...
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the Soviet Union Second-term curse General: Cold War (1953–1962) Operation Sandblast Analogous incidents: 1960 RB-47 shootdown incident Cuban Missile...
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the group that developed the Mark 45 torpedo, planned and oversaw Operation Sandblast, the first submerged circumnavigation of the world, and directed...
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. ISBN 9-780300-24310-9. Operation Sandblast President Jimmy Carter's naval career Naval Nuclear Power School...
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set by the US Navy's USS Triton nuclear-powered submarine during Operation Sandblast. The time established by Earthrace did not supersede the overall...
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completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the Earth (codenamed Operation Sandblast). May 11 – In Buenos Aires, four Mossad agents abduct fugitive Nazi...
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submarine remained submerged during Operation Sandblast in 1960. While the circumnavigation portion of Operation Sandblast is claimed to have taken 60 days...
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Museum of the United States Navy included Beach, USS Triton, and Operation Sandblast as part of the Technology for the Nuclear Age: Nuclear Propulsion...
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overthrown on January 1. 1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged...
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Triton This episode was broadcast February 14, 1961, and covered Operation Sandblast: the underwater circumnavigation of the globe by the US Navy first-generation...
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radioactivity with brushes, water, soap, and lye. Nothing worked, short of sandblasting to bare metal. As the spray column falls, a radioactive "base surge,"...
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Cape San Blas (redirect from Cape sandblast)
During the Civil War the lighthouse was not in commission but resumed operations July 23, 1865. Over the years, erosion began eating away at the lighthouse...
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1966 Soviet submarine global circumnavigation (category Non-combat military operations involving the Soviet Union)
forces. This is a strategic change of kind, not of degree." Operation Sandblast Operation Sea Orbit First Russian circumnavigation "Chronology of the...
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awarded for the Nuclear Deterrence Operations Service Medal for those personnel who work in direct support of ICBM operations who serve 179 non-consecutive...
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from New London, Connecticut, and, with 184 people on board, began "Operation Sandblast", an underwater voyage around the world that would end 83 days later...
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painting or roof repair, remove and clean and repair windows, as well as sandblasting and other masonry cleaning tasks. In Ontario, Canada, many steeplejacks...
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Heffron went to work at New York Shipbuilding in Camden, New Jersey, sandblasting cruisers in preparation for converting them to light aircraft carriers...
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in her berth, work began to prepare the ship for visitors, including sandblasting painted surfaces, applying primer, and then re-painting the entire ship...
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other reports) were exposed to low levels of the nerve agent sarin while sandblasting and repainting storage containers. The resultant publicity appears to...
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