Dating to 1958, this episode of “The Silent Service” — an early television show produced by Twin Dolphins Productions — is entitled “Nautilus and the Nuns”. Like all the episodes of this show, this one is based on real events, as fourteen nuns were evacuated from Bougainville in the Solomon Islands aboard the U.S.S. Nautilus in 1942. In reality, 26 adults were rescued from Bougainville in the operation, and deposited on Tulagi before continuing on to Australia.

The show features Admiral Thomas M. Dykers as host and has an appearance at the end by Sister Irene of the Congregation of St. Joseph, who was one of the nuns evacuated by submarine. It was directed by Jean Yarborough.

This episode features Peter Hansen, Mary Field, Peggy Stewart, Gail Kobe, Brett King, Robert Herrman, Joe Flynn, Don Nagel, Arthur Hanson, Joseph Breen, and Barry Harvey.

USS Nautilus (SF-9/SS-168), a Narwhal-class submarine and one of the “V-boats”, was the third ship of the United States Navy to bear the name.

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