USS Nautilus: Timeline

1954   The first nuclear-powered submarine Submarine

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, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut Groton, Connecticut

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, by First Lady of the United States First Lady of the United States

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 Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower Mamie Eisenhower

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1954   USS Nautilus, 1st atomic-powered vessel (submarine Submarine

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), commissioned by the US Navy

1960   May 10 — The nuclear submarine USS ''Nautilus'' USS Nautilus

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 completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the Earth Earth

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