#Uss nautilus submarine professional#

#Uss nautilus submarine professional#

A Presidential Unit Citation ribbon was authorized for skill, professional competency and courage to all members of the crew who made the voyage with a special clasp in the form of a gold block letter N. Anderson, Commanding Officer of Nautilus announced to the crew, 'For the world, Our Country, and the Navy.the North Pole.' The trip of 1,590 nmi (2,945 km) took 96 hours from a point in the Barrow Sea surfacing north east of Greenland. On Augat 11:15 pm USS Nautilus became the first watercraft to reach the North Pole, Commander William R. The best known voyage in her career was 'Operation Sunshine', the submerged crossing under the Polar ice cap. Up until that time this was the longest submerged cruise and the highest speed ever recorded, 23.3 knots. The USS Nautilus was built for fleet duty but more importantly as a testing ground for all nuclear designs to come.Īt 11:00 hours on Janushe put to sea for the first time and signaled her historic message, 'Underway on nuclear power.' During her shakedown cruise on she logged 1,200 nmi (2,223 km) submerged from New London to Puerto Rico in less than 90 hours. Rickover, the father of the nuclear navy. The USS Nautilus was planned and personally supervised by Admiral Hyman G. View a video overview of this project on my YouTube channel here.Ī big thanks to Matt Thor, who developed the initial raw files that this project was based off of.The USS Nautilus was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine and the first vessel to complete a submerged voyage under the North Pole. With the control surfaces for pitch control directly behind the twin props, response to pitch commands should be instantaneous, and the large double-rudders should offer excellent turning characteristics as well. At the original 1/96 scale, the hull perfectly accepts our 250/250/250 twin-shaft MSD SubDriver. Hull access is achieved via a beautifully engineered bayonet locking system. Limber holes, flood holes, sail openings and torpedo tubes are all rendered in the files. These 3D files allow for a faithful replica of this historic submarine to be printed in virtually any scale. The submarine has been preserved as a museum ship at the Submarine Force Library and Museum in Groton, Connecticut, where the vessel receives around 250,000 visitors per year. Nautilus was decommissioned in 1980 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1982. This information was used to improve subsequent submarines. In operation, she revealed a number of limitations in her design and construction. Sharing names with Captain Nemo's fictional submarine in Jules Verne's classic 1870 science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and named after another USS Nautilus (SS-168) that served with distinction in World War II, the new nuclear powered Nautilus was authorized in 1951, with laying down for construction in 1952 and launched in January 1954, final construction was completed in 1955.īecause her nuclear propulsion allowed her to remain submerged far longer than diesel-electric submarines, she broke many records in her first years of operation, and traveled to locations previously beyond the limits of submarines.

USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine and the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole on 3 August 1958.