

The Navy defense set the tone on the first drive of the game, forcing a Tulsa three-and-out.

They played Cincinnati tough they played Ole Miss tough this is a great team win."

"We showed a lot of grit and resolve, because that's a good football team we just beat. "I am just proud of our young men to bounce back like that after a devasting loss," said Navy head coach Ken Niumatalolo. The 53 points scored by the Mids equaled their total number of points scored in the first four games. Navy may never build a ship like Narwhal again, but then again, it may not have to.Box Score Annapolis, Md.-Sophomore fullback Daba Fofana rushed for a career-high 159 yards and three touchdowns, while the defense forced four turnovers to lead Navy (2-3, 2-1 in the American Athletic Conference) to a 53-21 rout of Tulsa (2-4, 0-2) in front of 30,658 fans at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. The cost is simply too great, and new digital engineering and modeling techniques make it possible to predict how equipment will work without building an entire weapon system around it. The days of producing one-off submarines to test new engineering concepts are likely over. According to the Oregon Department of Energy, submarine reactors are typically 33 high by 40 feet long and weigh between 1,130 and 1,680 tons. The reactor, like other reactors from decommissioned nuclear submarines, will be transported by barge up the Columbia River to the Hanford Site for storage. The submarine’s still will be sold for scrap, while the S5G reactor was encased in a steel tomb. The submarine was towed into dry dock 3 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, where she was dismantled. While the foundation overseeing the process did receive permission to proceed, the scope of the project was ultimately beyond its grasp. Navy via Īfter the Navy decommissioned the Narwhal, preservationists lobbied to turn it into a floating museum. The ship's possible missions could have included tailing new Soviet subs and surface warships to learn their unique underwater acoustic signatures, and sneaking up close to the Soviet coastline to snoop on military communications. While the Narwhal’s activities are still classified, experts generally think they involved collecting intelligence on the Soviet Union and Soviet naval forces-particularly submarines. The sub deployed 17 times, and according to the Federation of American Scientists, she received numerous medals, including the Navy Unit Commendation, three Meritorious Unit Commendations, and five Battle Efficiency "E" awards. The Narwhal served from 1969 until 1999, when the Navy decommissioned her from active duty service. As a result, the Narwhal was much quieter than her peers-so quiet, in fact, that the Navy adopted the circulation system for upcoming Ohio-class ballistic missile subs. The natural circulation process eliminated the need for water cooling pumps. Story continues 📚 Read Up: The Best Military History Booksįor years, reactor cooling pump noise was among the loudest mechanical equipment on a sub, but the Navy considered it a trade-off for using nuclear propulsion.

The Navy tested the system in the mid-1960s in a land prototype in Arco, Idaho, where the service conducted research on nuclear propulsion systems. This process involved using water convection to move pressurized water at slow speeds, rather than the existing method of using powered pumps to push water past the reactors. The Narwhal’s most important innovation was the use of “natural circulation” to cool the S5G reactor. The Narwhal was also the first submarine to test the powerful new BQQ-5 underwater active sonar, a complicated new direct drive system that eliminated the noise made by reduction gears underway, according to the Kitsap Sun. The Navy gave Narwhal was given an elongated hull to accommodate the large new S5G nuclear reactor power plant, which produced 17,000 shaft horsepower (SHP), approximately 2,000 more SHP than the previous S5W. It was based on the Sturgeon-class nuclear attack submarines, and its purpose was to test new technologies for future subs. The Navy commissioned the Narwhal in July 1969.
