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, ...
Between March 1869 and June 1870, Jules Verne published his now-famous science fiction story "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea." It tells the tale of a group of adventurers aboard a ...
The refurbished USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine and a historic landmark, is reopening Friday with a new look, the Naval History and Heritage Command announced recently. “My ...
USS Nautilus: The U.S. Navy’s First Nuclear Submarine Ever – In July of 1951, Congress authorized the construction of the world’s first-ever nuclear-powered submarine. Only a few years prior, the Navy ...
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 ...