The first launch from a submarine occurred in July 1953 from the deck of , a World War II fleet boat modified to carry Regulus. Tunny and her sister boat were the United States's first nuclear deterrent patrol submarines. They were joined in 1958 by two purpose-built Regulus submarines, Stumpf, pp 134 and ,Stumpf, pp 142 and, later, by the nuclear-powered .Stumpf, pp 151 Halibut, with its extremely large internal hangar could carry five missiles and was intended to be the prototype of a whole new class of cruise missile firing SSG-N submarines.Regulus: The First Nuclear Missile Submarines documentary, Spark, 2002.
The first launch from a submarine occurred in July 1953 from the deck of , a World War II fleet boat modified to carry Regulus. Tunny and her sister boat were the United States's first nuclear deterrent patrol submarines. They were joined in 1958 by two purpose-built Regulus submarines, Stumpf, pp 134 and ,Stumpf, pp 142 and, later, by the nuclear-powered .Stumpf pp 151 Halibut, with its extremely large internal hangar could carry five missiles and was intended to be the prototype of a whole new class of cruise missile firing SSG-N submarines.Regulus: The First Nuclear Missile Submarines documentary, Spark, 2002.