Word: nautiluses
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...Navy reached back into history to find a fitting name for the atomic submarine now abuilding, and finding it, broke from its tidy modern-day custom of naming all submarines after deep-sea fish. The name of the atomic craft: U.S.S. Nautilus...
...famous old sub name. Long before Robert Fulton puffed up the Hudson in his steamboat in 1807, he was experimenting with a long, platter-shaped submarine named Nautilus.* Jules Verne used the name for the spike-nosed boat commanded by Captain Nemo in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Over the years, two U.S. Navy subs have been christened Nautilus, and the best-remembered of them was the monster 3,000-ton boat of World War II fame. Launched in 1930, she was huge and .deadly, twice as big as ordinary fleet boats, with a pair of six-inch guns...
...Nautilus' new atomic sister is being built behind a tight security curtain, but by announcing her famous name, the Navy also gave a hint of how fast the work is progressing. The keel will probably be laid soon after the first of the year, and her prefabricated sections will be welded together soon after. From all indications, the new Nautilus will be ready for her shakedown cruise before...
...After the pearly, spiral-shelled mollusk, the "chambered nautilus" of which Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote...
...task group were "notoriously optimistic" in their claims, but they were actually in on the kill of five Nazi submarines. The last of these was the U-505, which became the first foreign man-of-war boarded and captured by U.S. sailors since the Peacock took H.M.S. Nautilus in the Sunda Strait in 1815. A boarding party from one of Gallery's destroyers leaped aboard just after the Germans abandoned the crippled ship, and just before enough water poured in to sink...