Word: seawolf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower said today the Seawolf had been submerged for 54 days and is still going strong...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1--The nuclear submarine Seawolf has smashed the underwater record and is now aiming at staying down 60 days, almost double the old mark...
...Thames River to the New London (Conn.) naval base last week purred the black nuclear submarines Seawolf and Skate, home from record-breaking underwater trips. Seawolf, with 100 men aboard, had covered 10,200 miles submerged, stayed below one long stretch of 30 days, 5 minutes. Skate, with 95 men aboard, had gone 8,727 miles under water, beat Seawolf in an informal competition by staying down 31 days, 5 hours, 30 minutes. Throughout, Seawolf and Skate performed their secret missions in such a routine way that they won a "well done" from Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke. Said...
...Even as Seawolf and Skate settled into their berths they were surrounded by signs of the Navy's growing nuclear potential. At the General Dynamics Electric Boat Division, the Navy launched Skipjack, the U.S.'s fifth nuclear submarine, a $60 million model with a special shark shape designed for high-speed underwater maneuverability. Abuilding on the ways was Triton, a giant-sized double-reactor, radar-picket submarine, biggest submarine ever built. Beyond that the Navy last week laid the keel of its third nuclear submarine designed specifically for mating in 1959-60 to the much-talked-about Polaris...
...other: Lieut. Commander John H. Ebersole; who served in Nautilus for the first year after her commissioning (1954), then transferred to Seawolf, while Commander Dobbins went to Nautilus...