Each year thousands of people visit the museum and go on board the submarine that made history -- the U.S.S.Nautilus.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

It is now a major part of the United States Navy Submarine Force Museum and Library near New London,Connecticut.

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He says that is how the Navy will continue to have what he calls the "best submarine force in the world."

VOA: special.2010.05.21

The older kind of submarine used in World War Two could stay under water for only about forty-eight hours.

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In nineteen fifty-one, Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover urged the United States Congress to provide money for the first nuclear-powered submarine.

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Engineers thought the new nuclear submarine would be able to stay under water for two weeks or more.

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In nineteen sixty, Nautilus was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea to become the first nuclear-powered submarine in the United States Sixth Fleet.

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She will also become one of the first women to serve on a United States Navy submarine.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

We went down to depth. I'm driving the submarine and I said 'Wow,this is for me.'

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For its first trip, the submarine sailed under water from New London,Connecticut to San Juan,Puerto Rico.

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I did get to be on a submarine two summers ago and that was it.

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But by nineteen seventy-nine, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine had become an old ship.

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Robert Corsino wants to know the history of Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine.

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Want to explore a working coal mine and a World War Two submarine?

VOA: special.2009.01.12

This was the first time any submarine had made such a dangerous trip.

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But the explosion was so great that it tore apart the submarine.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

International investigators have blamed a North Korean submarine for the attack.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

Within days,a German submarine sank an unarmed American ship, the Algonquin.

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But the commander of naval submarine forces, Vice Admiral John Donnelly,disagrees.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

And we answer a question about the first nuclear-powered submarine.

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The submarine sailed under and around the North Pole.

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This was the fastest any submarine had ever traveled.

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It said unrestricted submarine warfare would begin immediately.

VOA: special.2010.10.14

The women will attend a submarine training program.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

Nautilus was a large submarine.

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The bathyscaphe is over 16 meters long, and its gasoline-filled flotation chamber's deck,rails, and conning tower make it look a bit like a submarine.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

That warning came as South Korea's navy conducted anti-submarine warfare drills off its west coast.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

South Korea and the United States have announced they will conduct a joint anti-submarine exercise, widely expected to take place within a matter of weeks.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

We needed something, we had to invent it." Over his long naval career, Walsh served in both the Korean and Vietnam wars, commanded a submarine and worked as a policy advisor and assistant to the secretary of the Navy.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21