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Ported to OBJ from the NATO/SEATO Submarine Pack for Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator 2 (CFS2) as compiled and released by Lazarus Starkweather. Original SketchUp model by A.W., reworked and retextured by Lazarus Starkweather. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

Commissioned into service with the United States Navy (USN) on 30 September 1954, USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's very first nuclear-powered commissioned military submarine. She was named both for the legendary fictional submarine created by author Jules Verne in his classic sci-fi novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and for the famed World War II era USN submarine of the same name. She was a pioneer in many ways. Not only was she the first naval "nuke boat" as such, but her S2W pressurized water reactor would serve as the design starting point for all subsequent sub nuke reactors of that type. She broke a lot of endurance records at the time because she only had to come up for air for her crew, as opposed to the more frequent surfacing required for a regular diesel-electric powered sub (for the oxygen required to run the diesels). Because of that added endurance she was the first sub to transit the North Pole (Operation Sunshine, 1958). Despite these and many other firsts she was always an experimental one-of-a-kind vessel, and lessons learned from operating her as well as potential improvements that could be made to her design would be applied to future USN nuke boat classes. Nautilus served with the USN until 1980, when she was finally decommissioned. Because of her historic importance she was not scrapped, as is normal USN procedure for its former nuclear-powered vessels. She was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1982, thus preventing her from ever being scrapped under U.S. law. After an extensive and very costly conversion and post-service workover to remove anything even remotely radioactive from her (her old reactor, "hot" coolant pipes, etc.), she was taken to the New London naval base at Groton, Connecticut and opened to the public as a museum ship. While her engineering spaces still remain sealed off as an understandable safety precaution, other parts of her are open to the public. To find out more about USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the world's very first operational commissioned nuclear submarine, follow the link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Naut…

It's my understanding that Mr. Starkweather took A.W.'s SketchUp original (the first ever posted at Google's 3D Warehouse) and both revamped and retextured it for CFS2 use, winding up with a retail-quality version that I'd put up against anything from Cold Waters or any other Cold War era sub sim of its generation. Mine is a straight port of Lazarus Starkweather's version (not A.W.'s earlier simpler and flat-textured original), with no changes by me.

This is not my model. All I did was port it for you. Please credit Lazarus Starkweather for this particular CG version of USS Nautilus and A.W. for the SketchUp original. You do not have to credit me for my OBJ port.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

Description

Ported to OBJ from the NATO/SEATO Submarine Pack for Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator 2 (CFS2) as compiled and released by Lazarus Starkweather. Original SketchUp model by A.W., reworked and retextured by Lazarus Starkweather. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

Commissioned into service with the United States Navy (USN) on 30 September 1954, USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's very first nuclear-powered commissioned military submarine. She was named both for the legendary fictional submarine created by author Jules Verne in his classic sci-fi novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and for the famed World War II era USN submarine of the same name. She was a pioneer in many ways. Not only was she the first naval "nuke boat" as such, but her S2W pressurized water reactor would serve as the design starting point for all subsequent sub nuke reactors of that type. She broke a lot of endurance records at the time because she only had to come up for air for her crew, as opposed to the more frequent surfacing required for a regular diesel-electric powered sub (for the oxygen required to run the diesels). Because of that added endurance she was the first sub to transit the North Pole (Operation Sunshine, 1958). Despite these and many other firsts she was always an experimental one-of-a-kind vessel, and lessons learned from operating her as well as potential improvements that could be made to her design would be applied to future USN nuke boat classes. Nautilus served with the USN until 1980, when she was finally decommissioned. Because of her historic importance she was not scrapped, as is normal USN procedure for its former nuclear-powered vessels. She was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1982, thus preventing her from ever being scrapped under U.S. law. After an extensive and very costly conversion and post-service workover to remove anything even remotely radioactive from her (her old reactor, "hot" coolant pipes, etc.), she was taken to the New London naval base at Groton, Connecticut and opened to the public as a museum ship. While her engineering spaces still remain sealed off as an understandable safety precaution, other parts of her are open to the public. To find out more about USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the world's very first operational commissioned nuclear submarine, follow the link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Naut…

It's my understanding that Mr. Starkweather took A.W.'s SketchUp original (the first ever posted at Google's 3D Warehouse) and both revamped and retextured it for CFS2 use, winding up with a retail-quality version that I'd put up against anything from Cold Waters or any other Cold War era sub sim of its generation. Mine is a straight port of Lazarus Starkweather's version (not A.W.'s earlier simpler and flat-textured original), with no changes by me.

This is not my model. All I did was port it for you. Please credit Lazarus Starkweather for this particular CG version of USS Nautilus and A.W. for the SketchUp original. You do not have to credit me for my OBJ port.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.