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Which navy operated the first diesel-powered submarine?
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The former USS Nautilus, launched in 1954, being towed to Groton, Connecticut, to become a museum, May 1985.
The first diesel-driven submarine of any navy was the Aigrette, which was completed by the French navy in 1905.1