February 4
On the 4th in 1957, the American submarine USS Nautilus logged her 60,000th nautical mile, matching the endurance record of her namesake the Nautilus in Jules Verne’s novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea".
This Nautilus was the first nuclear-powered submarine.
A league is equal to three nautical miles.
Verne named the submarine, which he also used in his books The Mysterious Island and In Search of the Castaways, after the real submarine Nautilus that had been commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte and was built by Robert Fulton in 1800.
This Nautilus was the first nuclear-powered submarine.
A league is equal to three nautical miles.
Verne named the submarine, which he also used in his books The Mysterious Island and In Search of the Castaways, after the real submarine Nautilus that had been commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte and was built by Robert Fulton in 1800.
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