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Revision as of 05:03, 3 June 2007 by Nard the Bard (talk | contribs) (wikilink)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) This article is about a U.S. corporation that is usually referred to simply as "Electric Boat", which redirects here. There is a separate article about electric boats.General Dynamics Electric Boat (usually abbreviated as Electric Boat), a division of General Dynamics Corporation, is a major builder of submarines for the United States Navy.
The company's main facilities are a shipyard in Groton, Connecticut and a hull-fabrication and outfitting facility in Quonset Point, Rhode Island.
The company was founded 7 February 1899 by Isaac Rice as the Electric Boat Company to finish the "necessary" modifications to John Philip Holland's submersible design which became the United States Navy's first submarine - known as the USS Holland (SS-1). During World War I, the company and its subsidiaries built 85 submarines and 722 submarine chasers for the U.S. Navy. After the war the Navy did not order another submarine until 1934. In World War II, 74 submarines were launched.
The firm renamed itself to General Dynamics Corporation in 1952, and when Convair was acquired the next year, the holding company assumed the "General Dynamics" name, with the submarine building operation retaining the "Electric Boat" name. Eventually, the submarine division relabeled itself as "General Dynamics Electric Boat."
Electric Boat built the first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, which was launched in 1954, and the first ballistic-missile submarine, George Washington, in 1959, amongst others. Submarines of the Ohio-, Los Angeles-, Seawolf- and Virginia-class submarines were also constructed by Electric Boat.
In 2002, Electric Boat conducted preservation work on Nautilus, preparing her for her berth at the U.S. Navy Submarine Force Museum and Library in Groton, Connecticut, where she now resides as a museum.
Electric Boat was at a time in the business of performing overhaul and repair work on fast attack class ships. Ships that were already built would return to Electric Boats Graving Docks for needed repairs. Now most of the work done in the ship yard is focused on the new construction of Virginia Class ships.
References
- "General Dynamics Corporation". U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission. Retrieved 2006-03-31.
- The Defender: The Story of General Dynamics, by Roger Franklin. Published by Harper and Row 1986. More accurate version of "just who" actually founded this company.
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