Deep submergence vessel NR-1
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Name | NR-1 |
Builder | General Dynamics Electric Boat |
Laid down | 10 June 1967 |
Launched | 25 January 1969 |
In service | 27 October 1969 |
Out of service | 21 November 2008 |
Motto | The World's Finest Deep Submersible |
Nickname(s) | Nerwin |
Fate | Scrapped |
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Class and type | Unique submarine |
Displacement | 400 tons |
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Installed power | Single nuclear reactor, one turbine generator |
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Test depth | 3,000 feet (910 m)[2][3] |
Complement | 3 officers, 8 crewmen, 2 scientists |
Deep Submergence Vessel NR-1 was a unique United States Navy (USN) nuclear-powered ocean engineering and research submarine, built by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics at Groton, Connecticut. NR-1 was launched on 25 January 1969, completed initial sea trials 19 August 1969, and was home-ported at Naval Submarine Base New London. NR-1 was the smallest nuclear submarine ever put into operation. The vessel was casually known as "Nerwin" and was never officially named or commissioned. The U.S. Navy is allocated a specific number of warships by the U.S. Congress, but Admiral Hyman Rickover avoided using one of those allocations for the construction of NR-1 in order to circumvent the oversight that a warship receives from various bureaus.