Triumphal Return Of The Nautilus The Nautilus returns to the United States, capping off its pioneering cruise under the North Pole with a record-breaking run across the Atlantic Ocean, and New York goes all out with one of the greatest harbor welcomes ever for the trail-blazing nuclear sub and for the 'father of the atomic submarine', Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. Sailors come ashore, kiss women (wives?). Homecoming.