Boats and the sea have always been an important part of the history of <strong>Groton</strong>known as the submarine capital of the world. It is home to a U.S. ... » 

Boats and the sea have always been an important part of the history of Grotonknown as the submarine capital of the world. It is home to a U.S. submarinebase and to General DynamicsElectric Boat. Electric Boats prolific submarineconstruction in the 1940s helped America win World War II and it was in Grotonthat the worlds first nuclearpowered submarine the USS Nautilus was builtand launched. The village of Mystic now a popular tourist destination washome to the nineteenthcentury shipyards that built the Andrew Jackson theclipper ship that made the recordsetting voyage between New York and SanFrancisco and the Galena the first oceangoing ironclad used by the Union navyduring the Civil War. «