![]() View a video overview of this project on my YouTube channel here.Ī big thanks to Matt Thor, who developed the initial raw files that this project was based off of. With the control surfaces for pitch control directly behind the twin props, response to pitch commands should be instantaneous, and the large double-rudders should offer excellent turning characteristics as well. At the original 1/96 scale, the hull perfectly accepts our 250/250/250 twin-shaft MSD SubDriver. Hull access is achieved via a beautifully engineered bayonet locking system. Limber holes, flood holes, sail openings and torpedo tubes are all rendered in the files. These 3D files allow for a faithful replica of this historic submarine to be printed in virtually any scale. The submarine has been preserved as a museum ship at the Submarine Force Library and Museum in Groton, Connecticut, where the vessel receives around 250,000 visitors per year. Nautilus was decommissioned in 1980 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1982. This information was used to improve subsequent submarines. In operation, she revealed a number of limitations in her design and construction. Sharing names with Captain Nemo's fictional submarine in Jules Verne's classic 1870 science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and named after another USS Nautilus (SS-168) that served with distinction in World War II, the new nuclear powered Nautilus was authorized in 1951, with laying down for construction in 1952 and launched in January 1954, final construction was completed in 1955.īecause her nuclear propulsion allowed her to remain submerged far longer than diesel-electric submarines, she broke many records in her first years of operation, and traveled to locations previously beyond the limits of submarines. The USS Nautilus was decommissioned in 1980 and declared a Historic Site in 1982, before being converted to a museum ship.USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine and the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole on 3 August 1958. Launched in 1954, Nautilus broke multiple speed, depth, and travel distance records, with a radical new design that marked the arrival of the nuclear age. It had to be the USS Skate submarine that carried out the feat on Maand of which there is photographic evidence. January 22 was the 67th anniversary of the launch of the USS Nautilus, the worlds first nuclear-powered submarine. On August 3, 1958, at 11:15 a.m., it became the first submarine to pass under the North Pole cap, but in its three attempts it failed to emerge. On February 4, 1957, the "Nautilus" reached 60,000 nautical miles (111,120 km) in immersion, which corresponds to the 20,000 leagues in Jules Verne's novel. Nuclear propulsion gave it unprecedented autonomy up to that date (several weeks of immersion and up to 140,000 km at cruising speed, 23 knots). It was 91 meters long, weighed 3,000 tons and had an S2W naval reactor, a pressurized water reactor built by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. ![]() The USS Nautilus (SSN-571) of the United States Navy was the first nuclear-powered submarine in history and the first ship to cross the North Pole submerged.īaptized as "Nautilus" in homage to the submarine of the same name from Jules Verne's novel, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", it was built thanks to the work of the physicist Philipo Abelson. ![]()
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