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Show Navy Yard Installs Electronic Computer The Navy announced this week that the first large scale electronic elec-tronic computer to be installed in a naval shipyard will be used to coordinate and speed construction con-struction of the new Polaris missile-launching submarine at Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo, Calif. Largest submarine shipbuilding shipbuild-ing and repair center on the west coast, Mare Island has been an active participant and pioneer in the nation's nuclear powered shipbuilding program. Included among the yard's achievements are launching of the Sargo, the first nuclear driven submarine built on the Pacific coast, and building of the Grayback, the world's first submarine designed to carry missiles. |