Thank you for saving me from a medical emergency. From what you have described, this seems like a new low point in submarine technical history. There is absolutely nothing obscure about the information you pointed out as erroneous. Even Wikipedia has almost all of those details correct.
I would say that Narwhal was a Sturgeon variant, the most important feature being as a test bed for the natural circulation reactor design. But neither Narwhal nor the DC electric drive Glenard Lipscomb were technically Sturgeons. More like prototypes using a modified design Sturgeon hull design. Narwhal’s hull diameter was increased slightly to accommodate the raised and canted steam generators. Lipscomb was considerably longer than even the long hull Sturgeons.
. I'm just imagining poor Tom Dougherty flipping through this thing and having an aneurysm.
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