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Nautilus

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
SSN571	Nautilus	138	Electric Boat, Groton	14.6.1952	21.1.1954	22.4.1955	stricken 3.1980

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	3533 / 4092
Length, m	97.4 wl 98.7 oa
Breadth, m	8.40
Draught, m	6.60
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 1 Westinghouse STR Mk II (re-designated S2W) nuclear reactor
Power, h. p.	15000
Max speed, kts	22 / 23
Fuel, t	nuclear
Endurance, nm(kts)	practically unlimited
Armament	6 - 533 Mk 50 TT (bow, 22)
Electronic equipment	BPS-12 radar, BQS-4, BQR-4A sonars, BLR-1 ECM suite
Complement	105
Diving depth operational, m	210

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Project history

Nautilus and Seawolf were  built under the FY52 programme, these were the prototype US nuclear submarines, Nautilus being by far the more successful of the two. She was the world's first nuclear warship, with an S2W reactor and six torpedo tubes, all of them forward.

Modernizations

1960s: - BLR-1 ECM suite; + WLR-1 ECM suite

Naval service

No significant events.