The space also included crew bunks. Doorways on the USS Nautilus were narrow hatches that sailors had to step through. Handles on top of the doorways provided a grip to hold on to while stepping ...

The crew cruised to the Virgin Islands and New York City as well. One of the original crewmen of the USS Nautilus, Tom Brames speaks at the Rowland Freedom Center in Vacaville on Saturday as part ...

USS Nautilus: Pioneering the Nuclear Age of Naval ... twice as much as the Tangs. It had a crew of 105. While Nautilus would be powered by an all-American nuclear power plant, its hull was German ...

The USS Nautilus started as blueprints in July 1951 when Congress approved the world’s first nuclear submarine. President Harry Truman laid the keel at Electric Boat in Groton, Connecticut on June 14, ...

Visitors can walk through the historic nuclear submarine and see how its crew members lived and worked while submerged up to 700 feet below the surface. I visited the museum in March to tour Nautilus.

On January 17, 1955, the USS Nautilus transmitted a historic ... which functioned as the living and working space for Nautilus' officers. Nautilus had a crew of 11 officers and 105 enlisted ...