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.
Attachment: the-uss-nautilus-a-revolution-in-sea-travel.pdf
Well despite the following long list of issues, this article was so much easier than the last one. Perhaps the style was more consistent, or my physics background helped.
(1) p1c1 l1 I guessed “men and women”. But my phrase book had a “u-e”. If my guess was right I prefer your outline.
(2) p2c2 l17 “If the ? should fail” I couuld only fit ‘gyroscope’ or ‘compass’ but neither matched.
(3) p3c1 l11 Would that be “Atlantic NESS”?
(4) p5c1 l11 “pipes that ? ”
[5] end of p5 & start of p6: you repeated “this is”
(6) p7c1 l23 first outline
(7) p7c2 l11 last outline
(8) p8c1 l8 first outline is presumably “it is down”
(9) p8c2 l9 first outline
[10] p9c1 l6 presumably “a firm IN Japan”
[11] p9c2 l4 “on ocean travel” or IS it oceaning?
But I’m not sure that submarine liners would have attracted many passengers. The views would be dull for start!
The language in this selection was easier than in last month’s. Here are answers to your queries:
p1c1 l1: “116 men” (The line is long, I know.)
p2c2 l17: “gyrocompass”
p3c1 l11: “Atlantic, next of Greenland”
p5c1 l11: “pipes that lace the reactor”
p7c1 l23: “is not” (I corrected it.)
p7c2 l11: “oxygen”
p8c1 l8: “it is done”
p8c2 l9: “horsepower” (h. p.)
p9C2 l4: “on ocean travel”
I corrected the others.
Incidentally, U-Boat Worx in the Netherlands has developed a luxury yacht-submarine, called the Nautilus, and it looks very nice inside! Here is the website of the boat, with pictures. It has nowhere near the speed of the USS Nautilus and obviously is not nuclear powered, but anyways it’s a step in the right direction, I’d say. This is the original press release, with details about the ship.
That was interesting. But I think it may be a tiny bit too expensive or me!
For me too! LOL.