USOS Seaview
USOS Seaview – a fictitious civilian nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.
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| Name: | USOS Seaview |
| Ordered: | 1970 |
| Laid down: | 1972 |
| Launched: | 1973 |
| In service: | 1973 |
| Homeport: | Santa Barbara, California |
| Motto: | This Ship Dedicated To The Development Of Undersea Resources For The Future Use Of Man |
| Fate: | Nose redesign to take FS-1 Flying Sub |
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| Displacement: | 16500 tons (estimated) |
| Length: | 172.93 m (567 feet 2 inches) (from scale model) |
| Beam: | 12.19 m (42 feet 1 inches) (from scale model) |
| Height: | 18.9 m (62 feet) (from scale model) |
| Propulsion: | one nuclear reactor, two pump-jet propulsors |
| Speed: | 40+ knots (estimated) |
| Complement: | 90–125 – Officers, crew, civilian & gov't scientists & technicians (estimated) |
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| Armor: | electronic hull shield |
| Craft: | one FS-1 flying sub one 2-man wet mini-sub one 2-man deep-diving bell |
The USOS Seaview arrives in New York Harbor. Adm. Nelson and Cdr. Emery are to present their plan at a United Nations emergency conference, to extinguish the burning Van Allen belt.
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Seaview, a fictional privately owned nuclear submarine, was the setting for the 1961 motion picture Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, starring Walter Pidgeon, and later for the 1964–1968 ABC television series of the same title.
The accomplishments of America's nuclear-powered submarines were major news items in the years before the film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was released. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was the third American science fiction film to feature such ships. The first two were It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) and The Atomic Submarine (1960).
The submarine USS Nautilus, commissioned in 1954, was the first nuclear-powered ship of any kind. In August 1958, she steamed under the Arctic ice cap to make the first crossing from the Pacific to the Atlantic via the North Pole. On 3 August 1958 she became the first ship to reach the North Pole.
On 17 March 1959, the nuclear submarine USS Skate became the first submarine to surface at the North Pole. While at the Pole, her crew scattered the ashes of Arctic explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins.
The film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea begins with Seaview in the Arctic on the final phase of her sea trials, which include a dive under the Arctic ice cap.
USS George Washington was commissioned on 20 December 1959 as America's first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN). On 20 June 1960, she made the first two submerged launches of the Polaris missile. She got underway on the first deterrent patrol on 15 November 1960.
In the film, Seaview fires a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead to extinguish the "skyfire."
Two milestones in underwater exploration were achieved in 1960, the year before the film Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was released.
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