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Hyman G. Rickover (January 27, 1900 [3] – July 8, 1986) was an admiral in the United States Navy.He directed the original development of naval nuclear propulsion and controlled its operations for three decades as director of the U.S. Naval Reactors office.
USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN-795), is a Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the United States Navy and the second such boat commemorating Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, pioneer of the nuclear navy. [5] The boat's sponsor is Darleen Greenert, wife of then Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Jonathan Greenert. [6]
USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN-709), a Los Angeles-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, pioneer of the nuclear Navy, and the only Los Angeles-class submarine not named after a United States city or town.
How the Battleship Maine Was Destroyed is the name of a 1976 monograph written by Hyman G. Rickover, an admiral in the United States Navy.In the work, Rickover discusses the 1898 destruction of the USS Maine—a calamitous event which precipitated the United States' involvement in the Spanish–American War (1898).
When the long-serving director of the naval nuclear reactor program, Hyman G. Rickover, was finally compelled to retire in 1982, his successor was promoted to admiral and appointed director of naval nuclear propulsion, institutionalizing the position as a permanent four-star billet.
USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN-709), was a Los Angeles-class submarine commissioned in 1984 and decommissioned in 2006; USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN-795), is a Virginia-class submarine commissioned in October 2023
Retired admiral Hyman G. Rickover was extended on active duty from 1964 until 1982. In November 1981, Navy secretary John Lehman orchestrated the relief of legendary four-star admiral Hyman G. Rickover as director of the naval nuclear propulsion program, which Rickover had led since its inception in 1949. Rickover had transferred to the retired ...
Hyman G. Rickover (1900–1986) was a U.S. naval admiral responsible for the development of naval nuclear propulsion, and also known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy" Hyman G. Rickover may also refer to: USS Hyman G. Rickover, a U.S. Navy Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine