Electric Boat Corporation
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Electric Boat, a division of General Dynamics Corporation, is a major contractor for submarine work for the United States Navy.
The company's main facilities are a shipyard in Groton, Connecticut, and a hull-fabrication and outfitting facility in Quonset Point, Rhode Island.
The company was founded in 1899 by Isaac Rice to build John Philip Holland's submersible design. During WW I the company and its subsidiaries built 85 submarines and 722 submarine chasers for the US Navy. After the war the Navy did not order another submarine until 1934. In World War II, 74 submarines and almost 400 PT Boats were launched.
After the war, the company had a major role in the construction of modern submarines. Electric Boat built the first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus, which was launched in 1954, and the first ballistic-missile submarine, George Washington, in 1959, amongst others. Submarines of the Ohio-, Los Angeles-, Seawolf- and Virginia-class submarines were also constructed by Electric Boat.
In 2002, Electric Boat did preservation work on the Nautilus, preparing her for her berth at the U.S. Navy Submarine Force Museum and Library in Groton, Connecticut, where she now resides as a valuable addition to the collection there.
Electric Boat was at a time in the business of performing overhaul and repair work on fast attack class ships. Ships that were already built would return to Electric Boats Graving Docks for needed repairs. Now most of the work done in the ship yard is focused on the new construction of Virginia Class ships.
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Corporate Directors: Nicholas Chabraja | James Crown | Lester Crown | William Fricks | Charles Goodman | Jay Johnson | George Joulwan | Paul Kaminski | John Keane | Lester Lyles | Carl Mundy | Robert Walmsley |
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Subsidiaries: Bath Iron Works | Electric Boat | General Dynamics Land Systems | Gulfstream Aerospace | NASSCO |
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Annual Revenue: $19.4 billion USD (Image:Green Arrow Up.svg23% FY 2004) | Employees: 81,900 | Stock Symbol: NYSE: GD | Website: www.gendyn.com |
