While the USS Nautilus was the first nuclear-powered ... Instead, naval architects designed the Skate-class, the first ever production-model nuclear-powered submarines. The Skate-class was not ...

Airman 1st Class Kelly Willett/US Navy U.S. submarines have completed missions in the Arctic for over 70 years and the camp is named after the USS Skate, the first submarine to surface through ...

USS Nautilus (SSN 571) made the first transit in 1958. USS Skate (SSN 578) was the first US submarine to surface through arctic ice at the North Pole in March, 1959. USS Sargo (SSN 583), which the ...

The first Arctic surfacing was done by USS Skate in March 1959. USS Sargo was the first submarine to conduct a winter Bering Strait transit in 1960. The units participating in the exercise are ...