Cruelbreed
12-01-2008, 06:46 PM
Ripped right off wikipedia but you get the point, WORLDS FIRST OPERATIONAL NUCLEAR-POWERED SUBMARINE :)
For other ships named "Nautilus", see USS Nautilus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nautilus) and Ships named Nautilus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ships_named_Nautilus).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Nautilus_%28SSN_571%29_Groton_CT_2002_May_08.jpg/300px-Nautilus_%28SSN_571%29_Groton_CT_2002_May_08.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nautilus_%28SSN_571%29_Groton_CT_2002_May_08 .jpg)
Nautilus, retired, heads for home on May 8, 2002, after preservation by the Electric Boat Corporation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Boat_Corporation). Career http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/US_Naval_Jack.svg/48px-US_Naval_Jack.svg.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:US_Naval_Jack.svg) Awarded: 2 August 1951 Laid down: 14 June 1952 Launched: 21 January 1954 Commissioned: 30 September 1954 Fate: retained by Navy as museum Stricken: 3 March 1980 General characteristics Displacement: 2,980 tons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton) light, 3,520 tons full, 540 tons dead Length: 97.5 m (320 ft) Beam: 8.5 m (28 ft) Draft: 7.9 m (26 ft) Armament: 6 torpedo tubes Complement: 13 officers, 92 men USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_marine_propulsion) submarine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine) and the first vessel to complete a submerged transit across the North Pole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pole).
In July 1951 the US Congress (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress) authorized the construction of a nuclear-powered submarine for the U.S. Navy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy), which was planned and personally supervised by Admiral (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiral) Hyman G. Rickover (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover), known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy."[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nautilus_%28SSN-571%29#cite_note-0) On December 12, 1951 the U.S. Department of the Navy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Navy) announced that the submarine would be called Nautilus — the sixth US Navy vessel so named (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nautilus) — and would carry the hull number (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_classification_symbol) SSN-571.
Nautilus's keel was laid at General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics) in Groton, Connecticut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groton,_Connecticut) by Harry S. Truman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman), President of the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States), on June 14, 1952, and the ship was designed by John Burnham (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burnham_%28submarine_designer%29). She was christened (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_naming_and_launching) on January 21, 1954 and launched into the Thames River (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_River_%28Connecticut%29), sponsored by Mamie Eisenhower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Eisenhower), the wife of Truman's successor Dwight D. Eisenhower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower). Nautilus was commissioned (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_commissioning) on September 30, 1954, under the command of Commander Eugene P. Wilkinson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_P._Wilkinson), USN.
Nautilus was powered by the S2W naval reactor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2W_reactor), a pressurized water reactor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressurized_water_reactor) produced for the US navy by Westinghouse Electric Corporation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Electric_%281886%29).
For other ships named "Nautilus", see USS Nautilus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nautilus) and Ships named Nautilus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ships_named_Nautilus).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Nautilus_%28SSN_571%29_Groton_CT_2002_May_08.jpg/300px-Nautilus_%28SSN_571%29_Groton_CT_2002_May_08.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nautilus_%28SSN_571%29_Groton_CT_2002_May_08 .jpg)
Nautilus, retired, heads for home on May 8, 2002, after preservation by the Electric Boat Corporation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Boat_Corporation). Career http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/US_Naval_Jack.svg/48px-US_Naval_Jack.svg.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:US_Naval_Jack.svg) Awarded: 2 August 1951 Laid down: 14 June 1952 Launched: 21 January 1954 Commissioned: 30 September 1954 Fate: retained by Navy as museum Stricken: 3 March 1980 General characteristics Displacement: 2,980 tons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton) light, 3,520 tons full, 540 tons dead Length: 97.5 m (320 ft) Beam: 8.5 m (28 ft) Draft: 7.9 m (26 ft) Armament: 6 torpedo tubes Complement: 13 officers, 92 men USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_marine_propulsion) submarine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine) and the first vessel to complete a submerged transit across the North Pole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pole).
In July 1951 the US Congress (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress) authorized the construction of a nuclear-powered submarine for the U.S. Navy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy), which was planned and personally supervised by Admiral (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiral) Hyman G. Rickover (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover), known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy."[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nautilus_%28SSN-571%29#cite_note-0) On December 12, 1951 the U.S. Department of the Navy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Navy) announced that the submarine would be called Nautilus — the sixth US Navy vessel so named (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nautilus) — and would carry the hull number (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_classification_symbol) SSN-571.
Nautilus's keel was laid at General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics) in Groton, Connecticut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groton,_Connecticut) by Harry S. Truman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman), President of the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States), on June 14, 1952, and the ship was designed by John Burnham (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Burnham_%28submarine_designer%29). She was christened (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_naming_and_launching) on January 21, 1954 and launched into the Thames River (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_River_%28Connecticut%29), sponsored by Mamie Eisenhower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Eisenhower), the wife of Truman's successor Dwight D. Eisenhower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower). Nautilus was commissioned (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_commissioning) on September 30, 1954, under the command of Commander Eugene P. Wilkinson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_P._Wilkinson), USN.
Nautilus was powered by the S2W naval reactor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2W_reactor), a pressurized water reactor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressurized_water_reactor) produced for the US navy by Westinghouse Electric Corporation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Electric_%281886%29).