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General Dynamics Electric Boat

41°20′40″N 72°04′46″W / 41.344343°N 72.079526°W / 41.344343; -72.079526

"Electric Boat" redirects here. For electrically powered boats in general, see electric boat.

Company type

Subsidiary

Shipbuilding

1899 (1899)

Isaac Rice

Groton, Connecticut
,
U.S.

Kevin Graney (president)

14,000+[1]

General Dynamics

www.gdeb.com

General Dynamics Electric Boat[2] (GDEB) is a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation. It has been the primary builder of submarines for the United States Navy for more than 100 years. The company's main facilities are a shipyard in Groton, Connecticut, a hull-fabrication and outfitting facility in Quonset Point, Rhode Island, and a design and engineering facility in New London, Connecticut.

(Elco) - former subsidiary which manufactured electric yachts, and PT boats during World War II

Electric Launch Company

- former subsidiary of Electric Boat which manufactured electric motors and generators

Electro-Dynamic Company

- former subsidiary of Electric Boat which ran a shipyard during WWI producing steel cargo vessels, and slightly beyond

Submarine Boat Company

Gardiner, Robert, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921 Conway Maritime Press, 1985.  0-85177-245-5.

ISBN

The Defender: The Story of General Dynamics, by Roger Franklin. Published by Harper and Row 1986.

Brotherhood of Arms: General Dynamics and The Business of Defending America, by Jacob Goodwin. Published 1985. Random House.

The Legend of Electric Boat, Serving The Silent Service. Published by Write Stuff Syndicate, 1994 and 2007. Written by Jeffery L. Rodengen.

International Directory of Company Histories Volume 86 under General Dynamics/Electric Boat Corporation, July 2007; pp. 136–139. Published by St James Press/Thomson Gale Group.

Who Built Those Subs? Naval History Magazine, Oct. 1998 125th Anniversary issue, pp. 31–34. Written by Richard Knowles Morris PhD. Published by The United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, Md. Copyrighted 1998.

The Klaxon, The U.S. Navy's official submarine force newsletter, April 1992. Published by the Nautilus Memorial Submarine Force Library and Museum in Groton/New London, CT.

"The Ups and Downs of Electric Boat" John D. Alden, United States Naval Institute, Proceedings Magazine, 1 July 1999, p. 64.

Running Critical: The Silent War, Rickover, and General Dynamics, by Patrick Tyler. Published by Harper & Row 1986.

General Dynamics Electric Boat web site

Archived 5 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine

Electric Boat information page on General Dynamics Corporation site