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Eugene Parks "Dennis" Wilkinson (August 10, 1918 – July 11, 2013) was a United States Navy officer. He was selected for three historic command assignments. The first, in 1954, was as the first commanding officer of USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine.
Wilkinson, Eugene P., Vice Adm., USN (Ret.) This memoir reveals a great deal about the character and personality of one of the U.S. Navy’s pioneers—the first officer to command a nuclear-powered submarine and the first to command a nuclear-powered surface ship.
As commander of the 324-foot, dirigible-shaped submarine, Admiral Wilkinson made headlines worldwide when he steered the Nautilus, propelled by its onboard reactor, out of a shipyard in Groton ...
16. Juli 2013 · From June 1947 until April 1948, Wilkinson was executive officer and navigator of the USS Cusk (SSG-348). From April 1948 to April 1950, he completed assignments at the Oak Ridge National ...
EUGENE PARKS WILKINSON, one of the US Navy’s pioneers, died July 11, 2013, at home in Del Mar, California. He was 94. Vice Admiral Wilkinson was the first officer to command a nuclear-powered submarine and nuclear-powered surface ship.
The first skipper was Commander Eugene P. “Dennis” Wilkinson. He was as remarkable as his submarine, which I discovered during a five-day visit to his home in Del Mar, California, in January 1998 for the Naval Institute’s oral history project. By that time he was a retired vice admiral.
18. Juli 2013 · Eugene P. Wilkinson, a retired Navy vice admiral who helped guide the early development of the Navy’s nuclear-powered fleet and who commanded the Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, when it was launched in the 1950s, died July 11 at his home in Del Mar, Calif. He was 94.
