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8,100-ton nuclear submarine dives for first time, attack vessel proves water-tight integrity

A new nuclear submarine just made its first dive after being commissioned for the Royal Navy. The 8,100-ton HMS Agamemnon successfully submerged near BAE Systems’s facility in Barrow, Cumbria. The ...
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On This Day: U.S. commissions USS Nautilus, world's first nuclear submarine

Sept. 30 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1630, John Billington, one of the first pilgrims to land in America, was hanged for murder -- the first European criminal executed in the American colonies ...