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Operation Sea Orbit

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Task Force One had spent 65 days deployed, with 57 of them at sea, and steamed 30,216 miles in total without replenishment. Rear Admiral Strean noted that the flexibility of operating a force of nuclear powered vessels meant that TF1 "could have been diverted to any other maritime area of the world
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Veterans of Operation Sea Orbit gathered on July 30, 2004, for a 40th anniversary reunion. In 2011, Operation Sea Orbit was included in the Technology for the Nuclear Age: Nuclear Propulsion display for the Cold War exhibit at the
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Having been relieved by other vessels, TF1 departed on its trans-global cruise on 31 July 1964, with all three ships having taken aboard maximum provisions the day before to ensure there was no need for further
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on 13 May, before undertaking a series of exercises to test the efficiency of the all-nuclear formation working together.
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without logistical considerations and could have been ready for immediate operations upon arrival".
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Upon departing from Karachi, TF1 transited along the west coast of India before turning towards
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came alongside, the two larger ships were forced to anchor several miles outside the harbour.
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en route. The task force initially sailed down the west coast of Africa, calling at
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First circumnavigation of the world by nuclear-powered surface warships
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Commander, Task Force One: Rear Admiral Bernard M. Strean (Commander
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put in at Norfolk, all three arriving back on 3 October 1964.
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Commander William A. Spencer, the executive officer of the
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Non-combat military operations involving the United States
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on 28 April 1964, in company with the aircraft carrier
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Circumnavigation of the U.S. Navy's nuclear-powered TF1
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Following the South African visit, TF1 transited the
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Index

Cold War (1962–1979)

United States Navy
USS Enterprise (CVAN-65)
USS Long Beach (CGN-9)
USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25)
Carrier Air Wing Six (CVW-6)


circumnavigation
United States Navy
USS Enterprise (CVAN-65)
USS Long Beach (CGN-9)
USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25)
John S. McCain, Jr.
coal-burning
Great White Fleet
Norfolk
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mediterranean
Bahia de Pollença
Mallorca
underway replenishment
Rabat
Dakar
Freetown
Monrovia
Abidjan
crossing the equator
Cape of Good Hope

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