Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Commissioned in 1954, the USS Nautilus was the world's first nuclear-powered submarine. It was the first ship to visit the North ...

Congress authorized the construction of the USS Nautilus in 1951. After 18 months of construction, the submarine launched into the Thames River in 1954. The USS Nautilus would go on to become the ...

Sept. 30 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1630, John Billington, one of the first pilgrims to land in America, was hanged for murder -- the first European criminal executed in the American colonies ...

Here’s What to Remember: In 1958, the United States government pushed to have a nuclear-powered submarine reach the North Pole, both as a response to the Sputnik satellite launch and to... Here’s What ...

It was the first ship to visit the North Pole and participated in the Cuban missile crisis blockade. Nautilus is now an exhibit at the Submarine Force Museum in Groton, Connecticut. On January 17, ...