General Dynamics Electric Boat is the submarine building subsidiary of General Dynamics and has been the main builder of submarines for the United States Navy for more than a century. Its main facilities are a shipyard in Groton, Connecticut, a hull fabrication and outfitting site at Quonset Point, Rhode Island, and a design and engineering centre in New London, Connecticut. Isaac Rice founded it in 1899 as the Electric Boat Company to build John Philip Holland submarine designs, and its first boat became USS Holland, the first submarine commissioned by the US Navy. It built the first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, and the first ballistic missile submarine, USS George Washington, and later the Ohio, Los Angeles, Seawolf and Virginia classes. Since the 1970s only it and Newport News Shipbuilding have built submarines for the US Navy.
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The company was founded in 1899 by Isaac Rice
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General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB) is a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation.
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The company's main facilities are a shipyard in Groton, Connecticut
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The sections were produced at the General Dynamics Electric Boat facility
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built through an industrial arrangement designed to maintain both General Dynamics Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding
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General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB) submitted a $544 million claim related to its contract for 18 Los-Angeles-class submarines
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Electric Boat Division in Groton, Connecticut
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In March 2016, the US Navy chose General Dynamics Electric Boat as the prime contractor and lead design yard.
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tasked Electric Boat with converting two existing attack submarine hulls to ballistic missile-carrying boats
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Holland Torpedo Boat Company, which became the Electric Boat company in 1899
USS Triton (SSRN-586) (Wikipedia)
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Triton's keel was laid down on 29 May 1956 in Groton, Connecticut, by the Electric Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corporation.
USS Seawolf (SSN-575) (Wikipedia)
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Seawolf's keel was laid down 7 September 1953, by the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics Corporation in Groton, Connecticut.
USS Narwhal (SSN-671) (Wikipedia)
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Her keel was laid down on 17 January 1966 by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corporation, in Groton, Connecticut.
USS Tullibee (SSN-597) (Wikipedia)
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The contract to build Tullibee was awarded to the Electric Boat Division of the General Dynamics Corporation on 15 November 1957.
USS Skate (SSN-578) (Wikipedia)
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The contract to build Skate was awarded to the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics on 18 July 1955
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