Nuclear Sub: the Sea Wolf (1957), General Electric

[homosapiens1960]

My father served on The Seawolf during the Cuban Missle Crisis while I was an infant in my cradle. My earliest memory is holding the steering wheel of one of the diving planes. I stll have his dogtags and porpoises. I am proud of that man.  He was an electronics technian and helpled change the engine from sodium to water. And he never told their secrets.

[mpwelk]

Ah yes, safety being the primary concern, let's pump water through a sodium cauldron.

[kdraper2007]

U.S.S. Seawolf's liquid metal reactor was a failure, it was replaced with a pressurised water reactor. Seawolf spent the latter half of it's service as a special projects sub. this sub was retired in the early 1990's. the SSN-21 submarine was named U.S.S. Seawolf & was the quietest & most advanced submarine in the world when it was launched in 1997, today only the Virginia class is more advanced.