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Submarine ship. In July 1951 the US Congress authorized the construction of a nuclear-powered submarine for the U.S. Navy, which was planned and personally supervised by Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy." On 12 December 1951 the U.S. Department of the Navy announced that the submarine would be called Nautilus—the fourth U.S. Navy vessel officially so named and would carry the hull number SSN-571. Nautilus's keel was laid at General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division in Groton, Connecticut by Harry S. Truman, President of the United States, on 14 June 1952, and the ship was designed by John Burnham. She was christened on 21 January 1954 and launched into the Thames River, sponsored by Mamie Eisenhower, the wife of Truman's successor Dwight D. Eisenhower. Nautilus was commissioned on 30 September 1954, under the command of Commander Eugene P. Wilkinson, USN. USS Nautilus set a new standard for submarines. Rather than a surface ship capable of submerging when the need arose, this submarine’s natural environment lay below the surface. USS Nautilus (SSN-571) (wallpaper 2). USS Nautilus (SSN-571) ship images wallpaper gallery 2. USS Nautilus (SSN-571) ship pictures and images collection 2. After USS Nautilus (SSN-571) American submarines had virtually unlimited submerged endurance and the ability to conduct extended patrols in a hostile environment – a practice that became highly secret and routine over nearly fifty years of Cold War. Nautilus was the world's first nuclear powered warship, and the first submarine to be equipped with a nuclear reactor. Authorized in August 1951, she joined the fleet on 30 September 1954, though remained dockside for several months while fitting out. On 17 January 1955 she pulled away from the dock at Groton CT and signalled at 1100, "underway on nuclear power", then proceeded to make the longest submerged passage in history, to Puerto Rico breaking the highest sustained submerge record en route. She remained an experimental testbed for her entire career and was deactivated in March 1980, designated a national landmark 20 May 1982 and towed to Groton in July 1985 to begin her new career as a museum. The advent of nuclear power for ship propulsion had a profound effect on everyone involved in undersea warfare. Since the technology was completely new, Rickover had to provide the staff at Electric Boat Division (EB) with a broad education in physics, nuclear engineering, and steam systems suited for submarine propulsion. The admiral also knew that the technology would, in its turn, instruct both the Navy and civilian shipbuilders. Nautilus forced the Navy, industry, and science to learn more about quieting, highly toxic liquid metals, vibration at sustained high speed, and the necessity of carefully managing construction materials. When a pipe that did not meet the proper specifications failed during the final dockside trials of the Nautilus cooling system before the reactor went critical, EB learned the most fundamental lesson of all: Failure to measure up to the demands of the technology could have devastating results. USS Nautilus (SSN-571) (wallpaper 2). USS Nautilus (SSN-571) ship images wallpaper gallery 2. USS Nautilus (SSN-571) ship pictures and images collection 2.