File:USS_Nautilus_SSN-571_-underway.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
USS Nautilus
Sign in to saveAlso known as USS Nautilus SSN-571
world's first nuclear-powered submarine
Key facts
- Builders
- General Dynamics
- Operators
- United States Navy
- Preceded by
- Tang class
- Succeeded by
- USS Seawolf
- In commission
- 1954–1980
- Name
- Nautilus
- Namesake
- Jules Verne 's " Nautilus " submarine
- Awarded
- 2 August 1951
- Builder
- General Dynamics
- Laid down
- 14 June 1952
- Launched
- 21 January 1954
- Sponsored by
- Mamie Eisenhower ( First Lady of the United States )
- Completed
- 22 April 1955
- Commissioned
- 30 September 1954
- Decommissioned
- 3 March 1980
- Stricken
- 3 March 1980
- Status
- Museum ship
- Type
- Nuclear submarine
via Wikipedia infobox
~17 min read
Encyclopedic overview
USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first nuclear-powered boat, nuclear-powered submarine, and the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole on 3 August 1958. Her initial commanding officer was Eugene "Dennis" Wilkinson, a widely respected naval officer who set the stage for many of the protocols of today's Nuclear Navy in the US, and who had a storied career during military service and afterwards.
Nautilus shares the name of the fictional submarine in Jules Verne's classic 1870 science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and the USS Nautilus (SS-168) that served with distinction in World War II.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “USS Nautilus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.