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USS Nautilus

world's first nuclear-powered submarine

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Builders: General Dynamics
Operators: United States Navy
Preceded by: Tang class
Succeeded by: USS Seawolf
In commission: 1954–1980
Name: Nautilus
Namesake: Jules Verne 's " Nautilus " submarine
Awarded: 2 August 1951
Builder: General Dynamics
Laid down: 14 June 1952
Launched: 21 January 1954
Sponsored by: Mamie Eisenhower ( First Lady of the United States )
Completed: 22 April 1955
Commissioned: 30 September 1954
Decommissioned: 3 March 1980
Stricken: 3 March 1980
Status: Museum ship
Type: Nuclear submarine

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USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first nuclear-powered boat, nuclear-powered submarine, and the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole on 3 August 1958. 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 in the US, and who had a storied career during military service and afterwards.

Nautilus shares the name of the fictional submarine in Jules Verne's classic 1870 science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and the USS Nautilus (SS-168) that served with distinction in World War II.