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| | Ships named Nautilus - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography |
 | | USS Nautilus (SS-168) was built at Mare Island Naval Shipyard in 1930 and was one of the largest submarines ever built for the U.S. Navy. |
 | | After fourteen war patrols, in which she sank seven ships and participated in the battles of Midway, Makin, Guadalcanal, Attu, the Gilbert Islands and Leyte, she was retired from combat service and decommissioned on 30 June 1945. |
 | | On 17 January 1955, USS Nautilus put to sea for the first time and signaled her historic message "Underway on nuclear power." She steamed submerged 1,300 miles from New London to San Juan, Puerto Rico, in just 84 hours. |
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