![]() ![]() "It's a great opportunity to preserve and someday display something that is a one-of-a-kind in the whole world," Ryan said. "We're grateful for their willingness to accept it for eventual display, and we're especially thankful for their commitment to educating the community - and our Navy family - on the men and women, the vessels, the mission and the legacy of our Navy's undersea warfighters."įor the time being, the control room will remain a part of the museum's archives until space can be found to display it in the museum's already packed galleries, said museum curator Mary Ryan. "It's a proud moment for us to be able to present this to the museum," Markle said. More: Exhibit gives the public a peek into Navy's marine mammal program Howard Markle formally transferred ownership of the control room from the shipyard to the museum during a ceremony on Tuesday afternoon. Mathews.īut before the shipyard's first cutting torch ever began to peel away scrap metal, the shipyard and the Naval Undersea Museum started to explore the prospect of preserving components of the historic sub. It arrived at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard a year later, where it sat atop a barge for almost the next eight years until the recycling process began in January 2017, said shipyard spokesman J.C. To date, the mini-sub is the only nuclear-powered research submarine ever built or operated.Īmong some of its most notable de-classified escapades, the NR-1 recovered an F-14 fighter aircraft lost in the Atlantic Ocean in 1976, recovered lost components of the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986, surveyed the wreckage of the Titanic's sister ship HMHS Britannic in 1995, discovered three ancient Roman shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea in the late 1990s and investigated the remains of the Civil War-era ironclad USS Monitor. ![]() ![]() 25, 1969. During the next 40 years, the sub undertook a variety of missions - including search, recovery, oceanographic research, geological surveys and installing and maintaining underwater equipment - as well as countless military missions that are still classified today. The 145 foot-long NR-1, which was 13 feet in diameter, was launched on Jan. ![]()
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