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After the Civil War, the Federal Government accepted land in Groton and Ledyard, purchased by New London, for a new naval base, and America’s first submarine base was established there at the beginning of World War I. The Thames River had long been an active shipbuilding center, and following World War I, with the beginning of submarine construction, the area became a major part of the military industrial complex. In 1954, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched into the Thames River. The Navy’s research center for submarine warfare was located at Fort Trumbull, and the Navy continues to homeport submarines at Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton.
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