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She was designed by the famed Naval Architect Geroge C. Sharpe
Displacement: 22,000 tons Length: 596 ft (180 m) overall Beam: 78 ft (23.8 m) Complement: 124 crew, 60 passengers Cruising Speed: 21 knots (40 km/h) Top Speed: 24 knots (47 km/h) Power: 74 MW, 20,300 hp to a single propeller Load carrying capacity: 14,040 tons Watertight compartments: 14 Loading spaces: 6 Reactor Manufacturer: Babcock & Wilcox Builders: New York Shipbuilding, Camden, NJ Cost: $46,900,000 ($18,600,000 for the ship, and $28,300,000 for the nuclear plant and fuel) Range: 300,000 miles at 20 knots on one single load of 32 fuel elements.
http://www.marad.dot.gov/offices/Ship_Operations/nss/index.htm
http://www.radiationworks.com/NSSavannah.htm
her fuel
great modern interiors
today
Where the Munsters would take a cruise
[ 05-15-2006: Message edited by: joe at travelpage ]
Savannah was a nice vessel and have a attractiv interior. I believed Leonardo da Vinci engine room could be transformed to nuclear power. But never happend after the Savannah failer.
Thanks fore posting the interresting interior pic's
Greetings Ben.
A pity the ship had to have that nuclear reactor, if the image of nuclear power was not smashed beyond repair with the bombs on Japan then she might have had a change (then again we would not have had the need for Savannah as an ambassador for nuclear power)
Strange to see her interiors are still in a rather good state, with a little clean up and straitening of the furniture it would look smashing again. I get itchy hands when I see those chairs piled up and that lobby sofa, on a modern antiques market one chair could fetch up to 300 dollars! And here they are doing nothing but collecting dust.
Onno
Garnett
https://voa.marad.dot.gov/programs/ns_savannah/docs/Technical% 20Press%20Info%20%20Photos%20and%20Attachments.pdf
Perhaps Ernst could educate us on the workings of the poweplant described in the above link
some pages from the brochure
http://mysite.verizon.net/nealelosge/peelerbrochure/bookp09.jpg
http://mysite.verizon.net/nealelosge/peelerbrochure/bookp11.jpg
[ 08-08-2006: Message edited by: desirod7 ]
quote:Originally posted by desirod7:[QB] [...]Perhaps Ernst could educate us on the workings of the poweplant described in the above link [...]
Perhaps Ernst could educate us on the workings of the poweplant described in the above link [...]
The brouchure gives a nice description - if you have more specific questions I can of course try to awnser then - mind you that I only had some lectures and practical factors on nuclear engineering - I am working in a different field of physics.
enjoy
[ 08-22-2006: Message edited by: desirod7 ]
quote:Originally posted by desirod7:http://mysite.verizon.net/nealelosge/peelerbrochure/bookp11.jpg
I LOVE this shot of the Dining Room... I half expect Jeff Tracy and his boys to come strolling in from a hard day's rescue to sit down for dinner with Tin Tin and the family!
Did Savannah ever operate as a commercial vessel? Did it ever carry a load of paying passengers from one point to another? Did it ever carry cargo? Or were all its voyages promotional and show-the-flag exercises or something similar?
Another, parallel, question. Nuclear ships are steamships with the reactor providing the heat to boil the water. Is the steam propulsion turbine of Savannah still in place?
[ 08-23-2006: Message edited by: Cambodge ]
Between 1962 and 1965 the NS SAVANNAH sailed on her promotional voyages. In 1965 she was chartered to First Atomic Ship Transport, Inc., (a wholly owned subsidiary of American Export Isbrandtsen Lines) and entered commercial service. She sailed with them until 1972 when laid up.
I believe I have mentioned before on CT about the book: "The Story of the Savannah - An Episode in Maritime Labor Management Relations" by David Kuechle., Wertheim Publications in Industrial Relations, Harvard University Press, 1971. This is a terrific book that documents the ship's history (up to 1971) and particularly the labor issues, personalities and problems. No one emerges much of a hero in this story.
However, a great read, and very illustrative of the labor/management/government joint destruction of our U.S. flag maritime industry. Jerry
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