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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Captain John Henry Ebersole, M.D., United States Navy Medical Corps (26 January 1925 – 23 September 1993) was a pioneer in submarine medicine and radiation oncology, selected by Admiral Hyman G. Rickover to serve as medical officer aboard the US Navy's first two nuclear powered submarines, the USS Nautilus and the USS Seawolf.
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]
Eugene Parks "Dennis" Wilkinson (August 10, 1918 – July 11, 2013) was a United States Navy officer. He was selected for three historic command assignments. The first, in 1954, was as the first commanding officer of USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine.
USS Skate was the first submarine to surface at the North Pole, on 17 March 1959. Skate and Sargo were built with the S3W reactor , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Swordfish and Seadragon also had the S3W reactor in the S4W reactor plant (same machinery in an alternate arrangement).