It was the first ship to visit the North Pole and participated in the Cuban missile crisis blockade. Nautilus is now an exhibit at the Submarine Force Museum in Groton, Connecticut. On January 17, ...
The Nautilus is a legend from a bygone era—one with American industrial and defense capabilities the likes of which no modern leader has ever seen. In the long and storied history of the United States ...
GROTON, Conn. (WTNH) — The Submarine Force Museum hosted a ceremony Monday to observe 70 years of the USS Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine. The submarine traveled more than ...
Sept. 30 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1630, John Billington, one of the first pilgrims to land in America, was hanged for murder -- the first European criminal executed in the American colonies ...
GROTON, Conn. | If you've ever wondered what it would be like to be a submariner and dive deep below the ocean surface you can do just that at the Submarine Force Museum in Groton. There you can see ...
The first submarine to travel under the North Pole was the USS Nautilus, a nuclear-powered sub from the United States. In 1958, it made history by becoming the first vessel to reach the geographic ...
Click to open image viewer. On August 3, 1958, Frank Holland and John Krawczyk commemorated the first trip by a submarine under the North Pole with this specially-crafted handstamp. The journey below ...