In between testing, Nautilus conducted press tours and hosted several dignitaries from the Navy and Capitol Hill. The study found that anti-submarine practices, such as was used during World War II, were ineffective against a submarine which did not need to surface, could dive deeper, and could clear a search area in record time.
The following year, Nautilus operated out of Naval Submarine Base New London, Connecticut, where the effects of a submarine with increased speed and endurance were tested on contemporary anti-submarine warfare practices. She rounded out the year visiting several east coast Navy bases, a battery of torpedo firing tests, and standardization trials. In July and August, Nautilus conducted rigorous exercises with hunter-killer groups in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, and off Bermuda. While enroute to Puerto Rico, she remained submerged traveling 1,381 miles in 89.8 hours, the longest submerged cruise, to that date, by a submarine, and at the highest sustained submerged speed ever recorded for a period of more than one hour’s duration. After sea trials and preliminary acceptance by the Navy, Nautilus headed south for shakedown on 10 May. On 17 January 1955, she was underway on nuclear power. Following commissioning, Nautilus remained dockside for further construction and testing for the next several months. Rickover, at the Naval Reactors Branch of the Atomic Energy Commission. The construction of Nautilus-the world’s first nuclear powered submarine-was made possible by the successful development of a nuclear propulsion plant by a group of scientists and engineers, under the leadership of Captain Hyman G. USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was commissioned at Groton, Connecticut, on 30 September 1954 with Commander Eugene P.
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