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Medical problems in Nautilus and Seawolf, Dr. Dobbins told the Queensborough Rotary Club in New York's Long Island City this week, are not merely an extension of those met in conventional diesel-electric subs; they constitute "a really new and unique entity," in which the problem of protecting the crew against radiation is a surprisingly minor factor. Unlike old-fashioned subs, which had a Navy surgeon aboard as an occasional guest, the atomic subs always carry a medical officer and two hospital corpsmen to carry out round-the-clock safety checks and research...
Frig Leak. In the old pigboats, many other fumes and gases could be safely disregarded because they were periodically flushed out. Example: leaks of a common refrigerant gas (its identity remains a Navy secret) used in subs for many years. With Nautilus and Seawolf staying below for days and even weeks, the concentration of this gas built up to a point where many crew members had irritation in their respiratory systems; undetected and uncorrected, it would have become a definite health hazard...
...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...
...Russia has some 500 subs to the U.S.'s 200, is building more than 50 a year to the U.S.'s half a dozen or so. The U.S. has three nuclear subs: Nautilus, Seawolf and the brand-new killer sub Skate. The Russian navy may have no atomic subs so far, but the new edition of Jane's Fighting Ships published last week reported that the Russians are designing what they call "under water satellites": nuclear-powered subs capable of launching IRBMs...
General Dynamics built the first atomic submarines, Nautilus and Seawolf, produced the Air Force's F-IO2A all-weather interceptor and the B58 Hustler supersonic bomber. It is now developing the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile as well as commercial uses of atomic energy, one of Hopkins' greatest enthusiasms...