Electric Boat
The Electric Boat Corporation is one of the largest contractors for the construction of submarines in the United States . It belongs to the General Dynamics group of companies . The shipyard of EB is in Groton , Connecticut , the outfitting pier and installations for the fuselage manufacturing in Quonset Point , Rhode Iceland . The company currently employs around 11,500 people.
history
The Electric Boat Company was founded by Isaac Rice in 1899 to build the first designs of John Philip Holland's submersible boats . In 1900 the first submarine of the United States Navy , the USS Holland (SS-1), was modified there before it was commissioned.
During the First World War , Electric Boat manufactured 85 submarines and, through its subsidiary, Submarine chasers . After the First World War, Electric Boat did not receive any more orders from the US Navy until 1934, during the Second World War the company again built 74 submarines, 118 Liberty Ships and almost 400 PT speedboats for the Navy.
In 1952 the company took on the name General Dynamics Corporation , EB remained as a branch responsible for submarine construction.
During the Cold War, Electric Boat played a leading role in the production of nuclear submarines , with the first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571) launched there in 1954. The first submarine equipped with nuclear missiles , the USS George Washington (SSBN-598), was also built by Electric Boat.
From 1972, all orders for the Ohio-class missile boats went to Electric Boat, and in the following years many of the hunting submarine orders went to the Los Angeles , Virginia and Seawolf classes .
Web links
- Electric Boat. The past, present, and future of submarines. General Dynamics Electric Boat, accessed October 14, 2017 (Company official website).
Coordinates: 41 ° 20 ′ 46 ″ N , 72 ° 4 ′ 57 ″ W.