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USS Seawolf (SSN-575) was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the seawolf, the second nuclear submarine, and the only US submarine built with a liquid metal cooled (), beryllium-moderated [2] [3] nuclear reactor, the S2G. [4]
The reactor's designation, S2W, stands for "Submarine platform," "second-generation core design," and "Westinghouse," the contractor responsible for its development. It was a pressurized water reactor (PWR) initially installed aboard the USS Seawolf (SSN-575), the second nuclear-powered submarine launched by the U.S. Navy in 1955. The S2W ...
USS Nautilus (SSN-571) - Submarine Force Library and Museum, Groton, CT; USS Pampanito (SS-383) - San Francisco Maritime National Park Association, San Francisco, CA; USS Razorback (SS-394) - Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum, North Little Rock, AR; USS Requin (SS-481) - Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA; USS Silversides (SS-236) - USS ...
USS Seawolf (SS-28), renamed USS H-1 before launching, was the lead ship of the H-class of submarine. Commissioned in 1913, she ran aground and sank in 1920; USS Seawolf (SS-197) was a Sargo-class submarine. Commissioned in 1939, she was successful during World War II until she was lost to friendly fire in 1944; USS Seawolf (SSN-575) was the ...
"Seapuppy" – USS Seawolf "Shall Not Perish" – USS Abraham Lincoln "Shiny Sheff" – HMS Sheffield "The Shitty Dick" – USS South Dakota – nickname given by the crewmen of USS Washington, as a result of South Dakota having been given sole credit in the press for the victory at the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.
[2]: 189 Other submarines were used for this role, including USS Parche (SSN-683), USS Richard B. Russell (SSN-687), and USS Seawolf (SSN-575). Seawolf was almost lost during one of these missions—she was stranded on the bottom after a storm and almost had to use her self-destruct charges to scuttle the ship with her crew. [4]
An S2G was the initial power plant of USS Seawolf.This was one of three sodium cooled reactors (the core was moderated) ordered for the Seawolf program at the same time as three PWR units were ordered to support the USS Nautilus program; In each case, one reactor was land-based for training and research, one intended for installation on a submarine, and one spare.
Torsk: Baltimore Maritime Museum/Historic Ships in Baltimore, Inner Harbor, downtown Baltimore, Maryland (built 1944) Intelligent Whale: National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey, Sea Girt, New Jersey; Fenian Ram: Paterson, New Jersey