It was the first ship to visit the North Pole and participated in the Cuban missile crisis blockade. Nautilus is now an exhibit at the Submarine Force Museum in Groton, Connecticut. On January 17, ...
Clad in a navy blue cap reading “USS Nautilus,” one of the original crewmen of the world’s first nuclear powered submarine stood at the podium at Rowland Freedom Center in Vacaville on Saturday ...
USS Nautilus was built as a peaceful symbol of nuclear progress, but in 1958 she received a mission hidden even from most of ...
USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear submarine, has returned to public display after almost a year undergoing a $36 million preservation. Senior Navy leaders, government, veterans and state ...
USS Nautilus Submarine Sets the Nuclear Standard – In the late 1940s, then U.S. Navy Captain Hyman G. Rickover was frustrated with the state of affairs in undersea warfare. Submarines in those days ...
Here’s What You Need to Know: Nautilus was formally commissioned into service on September 30, 1954, but it didn’t take to sea for months. Its reactor was started up on December 30, and on January 17, ...
A $36 million preservation project is underway to restore USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, based in Groton, Connecticut. Senior Navy leaders and elected officials attended a ...
GROTON, Conn. | If you've ever wondered what it would be like to be a submariner and dive deep below the ocean surface you can do just that at the Submarine Force Museum in Groton. There you can see ...