The USS Nautilus incorporated the more significant Underwater Propulsion Power improvements made to her Gato, Balao and Tench-class predecessors. In her early years, the legendary submarine achieved multiple records and, in 1958, accomplished the first voyage under the geographic North Pole
It seemed like USS Nautilus could circumvent the world and do an admirable job on whatever it set out to do. It even participated in the quarantine of Soviet shipping during the Cuban Missile Crisis.