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USS Nautilus at Historic Naval Ships Association: USS Nautilus; Documents regarding the USS Nautilus, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library; A film clip A-Sub Epic. Nautilus Pioneers North Pole Seaway, 1958/08/11 (1958)) is available for viewing at the Internet Archive; Reagle, Jason (Summer 2009). "The First ICEX: A Historical Journey of ...
USS H-2 (SS-29), a H-class submarine (1913–1930) called Nautilus only during construction; USS Nautilus II (SP-559), a 66-foot patrol/escort (1917–1919) USS O-12 (SS-73), an O-11-class submarine (1917–1931) which carried the name Nautilus during a civilian arctic expedition in 1931; Nautilus, a cephalopod which is the namesake of these ...
Nautilus was a schooner launched in 1799. The United States Navy purchased her in May 1803 and commissioned her USS Nautilus; she thus became the first ship to bear that name. She served in the First Barbary War. She was altered to a brigantine. The British captured Nautilus early in the War of 1812 and renamed her HMS Emulous.
A crew of just over 100 sailors piloted USS Nautilus (SSN-571) under the North Pole. Nautilus was chosen for the mission because her nuclear reactor allowed her to remain submerged longer than a conventional submarine. The mission was completed successfully on August 3, 1958, when Nautilus and crew crossed under the North Pole. [1]
Nautilus is the name of several submarines, submersibles, ... USS Nautilus (SSN-571), a prototype U.S. Navy sub, the first nuclear submarine (1954–1980)
The plant was the prototype for the power system of USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, which used the improved S2W reactor. The specific location within the vast Idaho National Laboratory where the S1W prototype was located was the Naval Reactors Facility .
From August 1, 1958, through August 5, 1958, USS Nautilus (the first nuclear-powered submarine), under the command of Commander (later Captain) William R. Anderson, steamed under the Arctic ice cap to make the first crossing from the Pacific to the Atlantic via the North Pole. On August 3, 1958, she became the first vessel to reach the North ...
She was renamed Nautilus on 19 February and given hull number SS-168 on 1 July. She proceeded to Pearl Harbor where she became flagship of Submarine Division 12 (SubDiv 12). Reassigned to SubDiv 13 at San Diego, California , 1935–1938, then re-homeported at Pearl Harbor, she maintained a regular schedule of training activities and fleet ...