USS Nautilus and the Submarine Force Museum

We drove over to Groton to tour the USS Nautilus (SSN571) and Submarine Force Museum. Needless to say, the boys were excited. Well, we all were. The Navy has done a wonderful job preserving this historic vessel and telling the story of the US Navy's submarine service.

The USS Nautilus was launched in 1954. She holds several claims to being "the first". She was the world's first nuclear submarine, shattered all submerged speed and distance records, and was the first ship to cross the North Pole. She was decommissioned in 1980 and became the centerpiece of the US Navy Submarine Force Museum in 1986.