[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Master Zinja.

On this date in 1958, the USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, became the first naval vessel to reach the North Pole, having traveled under the icepack from the Barrow Sea across the North Pole and eventually surfacing north of Greenland.

[afraidfortherepublic]

A dear friend’s brother was lost aboard the Nautilus in 1964. R.I.P., Seaman Cumming.

[Bigg Red]

Old fogey that I am, I remember this accomplishment. I can remember my parents talking about it at the dinner table.