U.S.S. Nautilus
SSN-571
1954
(Quadrant)
- Class: Nautilus - 1 nuclear-propelled attack submarine of 1951
- Displacement: 3,533 tons surfaced / 4,092 tons submerged
- Dimensions: 323'9" x 27'8" x 18'7"
- Machinery: 1 S2W pressurized water nuclear reactor; steam turbines; 15,000 shp; 2 shafts = 22 knots surfaced / 23 knots submerged
- Torpedo Tubes: 6-21" bow; 22 torpedoes
- Complement: 105
- Builder: General Dynamics Corp. Electric Boat Co. Div., Groton, CT
- Keel Laid: 14 Jun 1952
- Launched: 21 Jan 1954
- Commissioned: 30 Sep 1954
- Decommissioned: 3 Mar 1980
- Notes: The first U.S.Navy nuclear submarine. Now a museum ship at New London, CT.
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