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This Was the USS Nautilus, the First U.S. Nuclear Submarine in Service and the First Ship on the North Pole: 116 Men on Board and 96 Hours Under the Ice.
At 11 a.m. on 17 January 1955, the moorings were released at Groton (Connecticut) and the USS Nautilus, under the command of Commander Eugene P. Wilkinson, departed from the dock driven by a reactor. It was the world's first nuclear submarine, 98.7 metres in length, 3,533 tons in surface and 105 crew members, according to ... Continue reading "Zarpó with a reactor in 1955 and in 1958 it reached the North Pole under the ice: so was the USS Nautil…