USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world’s first operational nuclear-powered submarine and the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole in August 1958.
The nuclear submarine shared the name of Captain Nemo’s submarine in Jules Verne’s classic 1870 science fiction novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and the USS Nautilus (SS-168) that served with distinction in World War II.
Source: Wikipedia