The U.S.S. Seawolf the world's second nuclear powered submarine, is shown sliding into the Thames River from here building ways at the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp., Groton, Conn. The Seawolf, similar in many respects to the world's first atomic submarine, U.S.S. Nautilus, was launced July 21, 1955.
The world's first Polaris-firing Fleet Ballistic Missle submarine, the U.S.S. George Washington, cruises at sea after leaving her builder's dock at General Dynamics Corporation's Electric Boat Division in Groton, Conn. Armed with 16 thermo-nuclear Polaris Missles capable of wreaking more destruction than all the bombs dropped in World War II, the 380 foot, 5,900 ton ship went on her first Polaris patrol in November 1960.
First opf the nuclear powered anti-submarine submarines, the U.S.S. Tullibee is shown at sea shortly after commissioning at her General Dynamics Corporation's Electric Boat Division dock in Groton, Conn. Carrying the smallest crew of any nuclear ship - six officers and fifty men - the 273 foot Tullibee is one of the Navy's newest Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) weapons. She carries more sonar equipment than all U.S. submarines of World War II.
