The USS Nautilus (SSN-571), sharing its name with Captain Nemo’s fictional submarine in Jules Verne’s classic 1870 science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, was the world’s first operational nuclear-powered submarine. It was the first to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole on August 3, 1958. Decommissioned in 1980, it is now a museum ship on display at the Submarine Force Library and Museum in Groton, Connecticut. This article, transcribed by yours truly in Anniversary Gregg, describes the features of this ship and the potential of this technology for future sea travel.
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