Neither technology by itself was new. The USS Nautilus (SSN-571) – the world's first nuclear-powered submarine – entered service in 1954, while the USS Albacore (AGSS-569) was the first to ...
It also featured a bow torpedo tube and a dynamite gun that used compressed air to launch projectiles ... Then, in 1955, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the world's first nuclear-powered submarine ...