GROTON, Conn. (WLS) -- A new nuclear submarine was commissioned Saturday in honor of a legendary Naval officer and Chicago native. The Navy added the USS Rickover to its fleet, named after Admiral ...

A new biography, Rickover: Underway, My Way, offers a rare and deeply personal portrait of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, the architect of the U.S. Navy’s nuclear propulsion program, revealing not only ...

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced today that SSN 795, a Virginia-class attack submarine, will bear the name USS Hyman G. Rickover. Mabus named the submarine to honor U.S. Navy Admiral Hyman G.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A new nuclear submarine will be commissioned this weekend in honor of a legendary Naval officer and Chicago native. The ceremony, that is replete with military meaning, will be the ...

Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who has long directed his salty criticism at inadequate U.S. schools and at unimaginative military brass, last week zeroed in on U.S. business. Industry has fallen ...

Tom Hanks of Williamsburg remembers clearly one of the official visits of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, known as the “Father of the Nuclear Navy,” at the Newport News Shipyard in the early 1970s. Hanks ...

While submarines are generally named for states and cities, the US Navy has named a few for people. One of these remarkable individuals was Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, a Jewish Chicagoan who has had ...

Rear Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, 58, wispy (5 ft. 7 in., 130 Ibs.), single-minded godfather of the atomic submarine, speaks only one language: plain English, spiced with pepper. Last week he flouted ...