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General Dynamics Electric Boat[2] (GDEB) is a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation. It has been the primary builder of submarines for the United States Navy for more than 100 years. The company's main facilities are a shipyard in Groton, Connecticut, a hull-fabrication and outfitting facility in Quonset Point, Rhode Island, and a design ...
USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN-795) at General Dynamics Electric Boat shipyard facility in Groton, Conn., July 31, 2021. USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN-795), is a Virginia -class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the United States Navy and the second such boat commemorating Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, pioneer of the nuclear navy. [5]
[98] The Navy's official investigation of General Dynamics' Electric Boat division was ended shortly afterward. According to Theodore Rockwell, Rickover's Technical Director for more than 15 years, more than one source at that time stated that General Dynamics officials were bragging around Washington that they had "gotten Rickover." [99]
USS. John H. Dalton. The lead boat of the Virginia class, USS Virginia (SSN-774). USS John H. Dalton (SSN-808) will be a nuclear-powered Virginia -class submarine for the United States Navy, the seventh of the Block V attack submarines and 35th overall of the class. She will be the first U.S. Naval vessel named for John Howard Dalton, the 70th ...
Delivered this April, the ship will be the 23rd Virginia-class submarine co-produced by the General Dynamics Electric Boat and HII-Newport News Shipbuilding over the past 25 years for the Navy's ...
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.
The MOD also enlisted the advice and expertise of General Dynamics Electric Boat through a U.S. Navy contract. [16] Eventually, a General Dynamics Electric Boat employee became the Astute Project Director at Barrow. [9] Audacious under construction
The United States has two yards capable of building nuclear-powered submarines: General Dynamics’ Electric Boat Division (GD/EB) of Groton, CT, and Quonset Point, RI; and Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding (HII/NNS), of Newport News, VA.