Talk:USS Nautilus (SSN-571)

message: I replaced the previous contents of the page, which were identical to http://www.ussnautilus.org/history.htm , with the DANFS entry --the Epopt 23:54, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Content replaced

message: Nautilus is mentioned as making the first submerged Circumnavigation, yet no mention of that here.  Presumably it's during the "11 years of history missing"?
Sworked 04:46, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Circumnavigation? 

message: From the article:
:...96 hours and 1830 miles under the ice...
That seems a bit too deep to be plausible...
:I this refers to the distance traveled not the operating depth.  Most submarines do not operate much below eight hundred feet. L Hamm 16:56, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Depth Typo ? 

message: I deleted the link to ssn571.com as it is a commercial with no useful information on Nautilus.  The 'search for crew' link was an affiliate link to Ancestry.com and the 'pictures' link was an affiliate link to art.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.16.164.253 (talk) 19:37, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ssn571.com 

message: The Silent War: The Cold War Battle Beneath the Sea 
by John Pina Craven 
 
"More than a year and a half later, in the first days of October 1956, there was neither press coverage nor ceremony on the Thames when the Nautilus slowly made her way to the Electric Boat Company dry dock. She had been tried at sea and had won every praise and laurel. Now, however, she was silently limping home. She was "down by the bow," as keen observers could see, but no one except her captain, Commander Eugene P. "Dennis" Wilkinson, had the slightest indication that the mighty Nautilus might be in grave danger. ... Wilkinson was in shock because he now realized that he had come closer to losing the Nautilus than he had ever thought...I had never before seen or imagined a structure so completely destroyed by stress and fatigue ... Our inspection disclosed, to our horror, that all the ballast tanks showed splits along their sides..."
Craven was the naval engineer in charge of the Polaris submarine design program.
Vasa2 (talk) 00:14, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:   Nautilus was almost lost early in her career 

message: What security concerns can there be for a 50 year old, obsolete design submarine that doesn't have its nuclear reactor installed? Sounds more like fancy wording for "We didn't restore or refurbish the rest of the submarine for tourists.".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bizzybody (talk • contribs) 23:43, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Security concerns? 

message: Does anyone know the diameter of the torpedos car--75.172.240.127 (talk) 01:58, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: For the most part Nautilus carried 21" torpedoes. She has been preserved with Mark 14 torpedoes. However, as with other US submarines 1956-72, an exception was the Mark 37 torpedo. This was designed for swimming out of a 21-inch tube rather than being ejected. The torpedo itself was 19" diameter, with 1" thick guide studs to allow space around the torpedo for swimming out. RobDuch (talk) 06:04, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  USS Nautilus (SN-571) Torpedos 

message: For some time I wrestled with this phrase: "and then set a westerly course that put her into the Thames River estuary".  Everyone knows that the Thames estuary is on the east coast of England, and so east of Portland.  I thought is was a simple typo, but then it twigged.  It was refering not to THE Thames, but to a minor river somewhere in USA.  I suggest that no-one outside the USA would know this, so I have taken the liberty of changing it.
Baska436 (talk) 06:14, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thames River 

message: Can we expand coverage of the internal noise problems for Nautilus, and the adverse effect this had on crews. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:02, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The "sail" of a submarine is the streamlined housing on the top. It contains the main personnel hatch, access tube, periscope, snorkel(s), RADAR and radio antennas etc. Some sails also support a pair of dive planes. Apparently after so much distance traveled and the squeezing of all the diving and surfacing, some of the streamlining skin and perhaps parts of the structure supporting it had worked loose. As Nautilus was a one of a kind boat primarily built for research and development of technologies for later submarine classes, the US Navy and Congress wouldn't have considered it worth the time and money to do a full teardown and rebuild of an obsolete submarine. Bizzybody (talk) 02:53, 29 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Noise? 

message: I remember well listening to news reports of the voyage to the north pole, and that there was extensive data collected about the thickness of the arctic ice.  Despite the relevance of this information to the current interest in global warming, there is no information in the article about this ice thickness.  An average thickness of about 26 feet keeps coming to mind.  What are the real numbers?  Of course, there was a great range of thicknesses of ice, and the submarine only surfaced in temporary patches of thin ice or open water, but how thick was the ice? Janice Vian, Ph.D. (talk) 18:30, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ice Thickness 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: For those who are not familiar with the conventions followed by the U.S. Navy (and likely other nations as well) the first vessel of a new design becomes the name of the following ships' class.  For example, I was on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) which was considered a Nimitz class vessel (named for CVN-68, USS Nimitz) as were other carriers constructed after until I believe a major design change happened, at which time, the following classes were then named for the first one in the bunch.  I have not been able to find what class the Nautilus (SSN 571) belonged to.  I would think that being the first nuclear powered submarine in the U.S. Navy would make it a class all it's own, but from what I have been able to find, it is not considered as such.  Anyone happen to know this information?  32.212.102.239 (talk) 04:46, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I know, it is considered its own class, a it's a new design not based on another type. Where did you find information that it's not considered its own class? - BilCat (talk) 05:28, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Class of vessel 

message: Nautilus now serves as a museum of submarine history operated by the Naval History and Heritage Command. The ship underwent a five-month preservation in 2002 at Electric Boat, at a cost of approximately $4.7 million. Nautilus attracts some 250,000 visitors annually to her present berth near Naval Submarine Base New London Lack a citation. Now - in October I see several sites quoting the ship has now gone to Electric Boat for preservation. I try searching for information on the 2002 Preservation effort, and an not succeeding. Any body know of any citations for the 2002 Preservation effort. I also recommend deletion of the second sentance - duplicate - included in the Article Header. Wfoj3 (talk) 16:20, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Museum Status 

message: Last paragraph regarding "herculean" effort and attempt to minimise others effort does not seem fitting for an encyclopaedia entry. Referenced article also s Ems to be behind a paywall. 2A01:C22:C94C:4800:5109:63F7:9D34:257F (talk) 20:41, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for catching that. The sentence in question was a bit of vandalism added July 5.  I have removed it.--agr (talk) 12:15, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Museum Section 

message: "Nuclear-powered cargo submarines may, in the future, use this route to the advantage of world trade."--   seriously?  I wonder when this was written. Maybe 1935?
 Actually, now, I believe if you want to sail the Northwest Passage you can do it on the surface.
Maybe just to delete this sentence.2600:6C50:800:2787:29AB:E316:C300:F82E (talk) 03:39, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  UNDERWATER FREIGHT??