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USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine and on 3 August 1958 became the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole.
USS Nautilus (SF-9/SS-168), a Narwhal-class submarine and one of the "V-boats", was the third ship of the United States Navy to bear the name. [ 12 ] Construction and commissioning
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 ...
In 1959, USS Skate was the first submarine to surface at the North Pole and the second submarine (after USS Nautilus (SSN-571) in 1958) to reach the North Pole. Her crew conducted a tribute to Sir George Hubert Wilkins and scattered his ashes over the North Pole. In 2010 the research submersible JAGO dove to try to locate and inspect Nautilus. [1]
USS Nautilus was the first nuclear submarine built for the U.S. armed forces. She was designed by Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. [1] Rickover ordered the hull of the boat built at Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut, while the reactor was built and tested in Idaho.
The United States Navy Submarine Force Library and Museum is located on the Thames River in Groton, Connecticut.It is the only submarine museum managed exclusively by the Naval History & Heritage Command division of the Navy, and this makes it a repository for many special submarine items of national significance, including USS Nautilus (SSN-571).
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.
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.