Nautilus Handed Over To U.S. Navy
CONNECTICUT, September 30. The first United State atomicpowered . submarine, Nautilus, was commissioned today inaugurating what Admiral Jerauld Wright, Commander-in-Chief of the United States Atlantic Fleet, hailed as America’s “new navy.” The Nautilus, still being outfitted for sea trials, was officially handed over to the Navy at brief exercises in the yards of the electric boat division of the German Dynamics Corporation. Admiral Wright said: “We pray to God that the atom will be used for peaceful pursuits rather than the destruction of the human race.
“But, through the gigantic efforts of the Soviet Union, control of the seas is today being seriously challenged,” he said.
“No longer does the United States Navy have the preponderance of naval power over Soviet Russia, as was so evident a half-dozen years ago,” he added. “The Soviet realises that the conquest of the world is not dependent upon land and air power alone.”
He said there would be “many sister ships” to the 55,000,000-dollar Nautilus, “produced as fast as possible to support the new weapons.”
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27470, 2 October 1954, Page 7
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