Like I said, she is the first submarine to be propelled and its systems run by nuclear power. Her top speeds have been recorded as 22 knots on the surface and 20+ knots submerged. She is 323’ 9” in length, with a 27’ 8” beam. It was built by Electric Boat Company from 1952-54 and launched into the Thames River, here in Groton, on January 21, 1954. The USS NAUTILUS (SSN 571), is the world’s first nuclear powered submarine. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1982, the world’s first nuclear submarine went on exhibit in 1986 as the Historic Ship Nautilus at the Submarine Force Museum in Groton, Connecticut.Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season I know I sure did! But, now I’m back and very excited to explore the USS NAUTILUS. Eisenhower decorated Anderson with the Legion of Merit.Īfter a career spanning 25 years and almost 500,000 miles steamed, the Nautilus was decommissioned on March 3, 1980. For the command during the historic journey, President Dwight D. Two days later, it ended its historic journey at Iceland. The submarine next surfaced in the Greenland Sea between Spitzbergen and Greenland on August 5. EDT on August 3, 1958, Commander Anderson announced to his crew: “For the world, our country, and the Navy-the North Pole.” The Nautilus passed under the geographic North Pole without pausing. The submarine traveled at a depth of about 500 feet, and the ice cap above varied in thickness from 10 to 50 feet, with the midnight sun of the Arctic shining in varying degrees through the blue ice. On August 1, the submarine left the north coast of Alaska and dove under the Arctic ice cap. The Nautilus steamed north through the Bering Strait and did not surface until it reached Point Barrow, Alaska, in the Beaufort Sea, though it did send its periscope up once off the Diomedes Islands, between Alaska and Siberia, to check for radar bearings. Anderson, 111 officers and crew, and four civilian scientists. There were 116 men aboard for this historic voyage, including Commander William R. In its early years of service, the USS Nautilus broke numerous submarine travel records and on July 23, 1958, departed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on “Operation Northwest Passage”-the first crossing of the North Pole by submarine. The uranium-powered nuclear reactor produced steam that drove propulsion turbines, allowing the Nautilus to travel underwater at speeds in excess of 20 knots. It could remain submerged for almost unlimited periods because its atomic engine needed no air and only a very small quantity of nuclear fuel. Much larger than the diesel-electric submarines that preceded it, the Nautilus stretched 319 feet and displaced 3,180 tons. READ MORE: 9 Groundbreaking Early Submarines Commissioned on September 30, 1954, it first ran under nuclear power on the morning of January 17, 1955. Truman, and on January 21, 1954, first lady Mamie Eisenhower broke a bottle of champagne across its bow as it was launched into the Thames River at Groton, Connecticut. In 1952, the Nautilus’ keel was laid by President Harry S. Regarded as a fanatic by his detractors, Rickover succeeded in developing and delivering the world’s first nuclear submarine years ahead of schedule. In 1947, he was put in charge of the navy’s nuclear-propulsion program and began work on an atomic submarine. Rickover, a brilliant Russian-born engineer who joined the U.S. The USS Nautilus was constructed under the direction of U.S. It then steamed on to Iceland, pioneering a new and shorter route from the Pacific to the Atlantic and Europe. The world’s first nuclear submarine, the Nautilus dived at Point Barrow, Alaska, and traveled nearly 1,000 miles under the Arctic ice cap to reach the top of the world. nuclear submarine Nautilus accomplishes the first undersea voyage to the geographic North Pole.
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