It was the first of many submarines built at Mare Island CA. She was launched on 15 March 1930 sponsored by Miss Joan Keesling, and commissioned on 1 July 1930. Her keel was laid on by the Mare Island Naval Shipyard of Vallejo, California. Nautilus was originally named and designated V-6 (SF-9), but was redesignated and given hull classification symbol SC-2 on 11 February 1925. USS Nautilus (SF-9/SS-168), a Narwhal-class submarine and one of the " V-boats", was the third ship of the United States Navy to bear the name. (four external tubes added 1941-42 provision for 8-12 additional torpedoes externally) 2 × 6-inch (152 mm)/53 caliber Mark XII Mod.6 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (four forward, two aft 24-26 internal torpedoes).(as built) 9 officers, 10 petty officers, 70 enlisted.25,000 nautical miles (46,000 km) at 5.7 knots (10.6 km/h) with fuel in main ballast tanks.2 × Westinghouse electric motors, 1,270 hp (950 kW) each,.2 × GM Winton 8-268A 2-cycle auxiliary diesel generators, 300 kW (400 hp) each,.Re-engined 1941-42: 4 × General Motors Winton Model 16-278A 16-cylinder two-cycle diesel-electric diesel engines, 1,600 hp (1,200 kW) each,.2 × Westinghouse electric motors, 800 hp (600 kW) each.300 kW (400 hp) auxiliary diesel generators,.2 × BuEng-built, MAN-designed direct-drive main diesel engines, 2,350 hp (1,750 kW) each,.V-5 ( Narwhal)-class composite direct-drive diesel and diesel-electric submarine One Anti-Aircraft shot 3 on every round of Combat.For other ships with the same name, see USS Nautilus and Ships named Nautilus. Nautilus was delivered to the Navy in 1955. Eisenhower it was commissioned the following September into the United States Navy. Construction began in 1952, and the boat was launched in January 1954, attended by Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States, wife of 34th President Dwight D. Nautilus (SS-168) that served with distinction in World War II, the new nuclear-powered Nautilus was authorized in 1951. Sharing a name with Captain Nemo's fictional submarine in Jules Verne's classic 1870 science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and the U.S.S.
Her initial commanding officer was Eugene Parks "Dennis" Wilkinson, a widely respected naval officer who set the stage for many of the protocols of today's Nuclear Navy of the US, and who had a storied career during military service and afterwards. Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine and the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole on 3 August 1958.
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