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The former USS Nautilus, launched in 1954, being towed to Groton, Connecticut, to become a museum, May 1985.
Living conditions inside early diesel-electric submarines were notoriously difficult because the quarters were cramped, generally wet, and permeated by the persistent, unpleasant odor of diesel oil.1