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An electric boat is a powered watercraft driven by electric motors, which are powered by either on-board battery packs, solar panels or generators. [1] While a significant majority of water vessels are powered by diesel engines, with sail power and gasoline engines also popular, boats powered by electricity have been used for over 120 years.
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 ...
The United States Navy Submarine Force Library and Museum is located on the Thames River in Groton, Connecticut.It is the only submarine museum managed exclusively by the Naval History & Heritage Command division of the Navy, and this makes it a repository for many special submarine items of national significance, including USS Nautilus (SSN-571).
The company was founded by electrical inventor William Woodnut Griscom in 1880. An important early customer for electric boat motors was the Electric Launch Company, also known as Elco. Following an 1892 bankruptcy, financier Isaac Rice bailed out Electro-Dynamic and became a co-owner. Griscom died in a hunting accident in 1897.
Aug. 12—GROTON — Dylan Johnson, a software engineer at Electric Boat, and his colleagues didn't have to go far to enjoy the summer weather and a short lunch break on Tuesday. They stepped ...
Armour. Bridge: 17mm. Type XXI submarines were a class of German diesel–electric Elektroboot (German: "electric boat") submarines designed during the Second World War. One hundred and eighteen were completed, with four being combat-ready. During the war only two were put into active service and went on patrols, but these were not used in ...
The result was the "Elektroboot" series, the Type XXI U-boat and a short range Type XXIII U-boat, finalized in January 1943 but with production only commencing in 1944–1945. When under water, the Type XXI managed to run at 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph), which was faster than a Type VII running full out on the surface and almost as fast as the ...
The Electric Boat Association (EBA) [1] was established in London in 1982 and is the largest organisation in the world dedicated to electric boats and boating. It was the first such national association and has been followed by associations in France, [2] Greece, [3] Norway, [4] Netherlands, [5] Switzerland, [6] Canada [7] and United States [8]