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USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine and on 3 August 1958 became the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole. 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 ...
USS Nautilus (SF-9/SS-168), a Narwhal-class submarine and one of the "V-boats", was the third ship of the United States Navy to bear the name. [12]
Leesburg, Virginia, U.S. Political party. Democratic. Spouse. Patricia Anderson. Alma mater. United States Naval Academy. William Robert Anderson (June 17, 1921 – February 25, 2007) was an officer in the United States Navy, and a U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1965 to 1973.
In the 67 years since the Navy launched the world's first nuclear-powered sub, USS Nautilus, its boats have only gotten more capable and more deadly.
A Russian-born engineer, U.S. Navy Captain Hyman G. Rickover, directed the construction of the USS Nautilus.He joined the U.S. atomic program in 1946, and in 1947, he was put in charge of the navy ...
Aug. 4—GROTON — Retired Navy Capt. William A. Gaines, a sonar operator when the USS Nautilus made its 1958 trip to the geographic North Pole, said every crew member on board the nuclear ...
John H. Ebersole. Captain John Henry Ebersole, M.D., United States Navy Medical Corps (26 January 1925 – 23 September 1993) was a pioneer in submarine medicine and radiation oncology, selected by Admiral Hyman G. Rickover to serve as medical officer aboard the US Navy 's first two nuclear powered submarines, the USS Nautilus and the USS Seawolf.
Exercise successfully executed. Exercise Strikeback aka Operation Strikeback was a major naval exercise of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that took place over a ten-day period in September 1957. As part of a series of exercises to simulate an all-out Soviet attack on NATO, Exercise Strikeback was tasked with two objectives.