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December 12: The Nautilus (ναυτίλος)

On 12 December 1951, the Navy announced that they had chosen Nautilus as the name of the first nuclear powered submarine. However, President Harry S. Truman would not lay the keel of submarine until 14 June 1952. The USS Nautilus was launched on 21 January 1954. The nuclear submarine was the sixth navy ship to […]