As I drove by the Nautilus Museum today, it reminded me of moving to Ledyard in the 1970’s as a young Navy wife. My very first tour of a submarine, was on the Nautilus, when she was actually an operational submarine and not a museum. More than 10 years later, on July 6, 1985, I stood on the shoreline of New London as the Nautilus was towed back to Groton, after her extensive historic ship conversion at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California.
The Nautilus was the world’s first nuclear submarine and was launched in Groton CT in 1954.
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