page_title: Edward L. Beach Jr.
section_title: USS Salamonie
hierarchical_section_title: Edward L. Beach Jr. / Naval career / USS Salamonie
caption_attribution_description: Captain Edward L. Beach, USN, and the Triton Circumavigation (1960)
context_page_description: Edward Latimer Beach Jr., nicknamed "Ned", was a highly decorated United States Navy submarine officer and best-selling author.
  During World War II, he participated in the Battle of Midway and 12 combat patrols, earning 10 decorations for gallantry, including the Navy Cross. After the war, he served as the naval aide to the President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and commanded the first submerged circumnavigation.
  Beach's best-selling novel, Run Silent, Run Deep, was made into the 1958 movie by the same name. The son of Captain Edward L. Beach Sr. and Alice Fouché Beach, Beach Jr. was born in New York City and raised in Palo Alto, California.
context_section_description: Beach left the White House in January 1957, and assumed command of USS Salamonie, a Cimarron-class fleet replenishment oiler, on March 15.  He completed a deployment to the U.S. Sixth Fleet, operating in the Mediterranean Sea, in December 1957.
caption: Beach traces the route of the first undersea circumnavigation by Triton in 1960
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