The Port of Benton plans to encase in concrete the sail from a nuclear-powered submarine at 9 a.m. Friday at its new memorial park in north Richland.
The USS Triton submarine was decommissioned in Bremerton and the port obtained the sail obtained to recognize all the decommissioned reactor cores off-loaded at the port's barge slip, transported and stored at the Hanford site.
The sail is the large tower-like structure on top of a submarine. The 447-foot, 5,900-ton Triton submarine was commissioned in 1959. It was the first marine vessel to circumnavigate the world underwater following the course Ferdinand Magellan sailed in the 16th century.
To get to the park site, take Stevens Drive north to Battelle Boulevard, turn right and continue. Turn left at the stop light onto George Washington Way and right at Horn Rapids Road. Look for the big Lampson crane.
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Triton sails home to Richland park
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The smell inside the USS Triton's 24-foot-tall sail took Mike Thornton of Richland back to his days of serving in a submarine.
Thornton and his 11-year-old grandson, Riley Sorn, were among the several hundred people who gathered Thursday to see the USS Triton Sail Park dedicated in north Richland -- exactly 52 years after the Triton officially was commissioned.
Thornton served on the USS Picuda SS-382 from 1967-71 and said that other than being a submarine, the diesel electric Picuda didn't have much in common with the Triton, which was powered by two nuclear reactors.
AGENDAS: Mid-Columbia public meeting schedule
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Here is a listing of the agendas this week for Mid-Columbia public agencies:
Wednesday
* Richland Planning Commission, 7 p.m., city hall council chambers, 505 Swift Blvd.: Elect officers.
Officials to attend ferry dedication
Officials to attend ferry dedication
Members of the Kennewick City Council, the city manager and several city staff will be on deck next week for the formal dedication and community celebration of the state ferry Kennewick in Port Townsend.
The 64-car boat, one of three recently built to join a fleet that's part of the Washington State Ferries system, will be open for public inspection from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at the Port Townsend ferry terminal.
Constructed at a cost of $60 million, the 273-foot-long ferry will be making runs from Port Townsend to Coupeville on Whidbey Island on a schedule to begin in mid-January. It replaces a 65-year-old ferry named Rhododendron.
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Richard J. Silver
Richard J. Silver
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, West Indies -- Richard Jon Silver, 71, of Trinidad/Tobago, West Indies, died Aug. 2 in the Port of Spain, Trinidad.
He was born in Portland and lived many years in the Tri-Cities before sailing to the West Indies.
He was a retired freelance electrical engineer.
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