The NS SAVANNAH 1959 model ship PLANS & PHOTOS * The first nuclear-powered merchant ship * FSH

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1:09 - NS Savannah - Construction, building, and launching
4:29 - NS Savannah - was powered by a pressurized water reactor (PWR)
7:59 - NS Savannah - Service history
9:24 - NS Savannah - Ship model plans
10:42 - NS Savannah - Museum ship
11:15 - NS Savannah - Ship model photos

The Nuclear Ship Savannah, launched on July 21, 1959, was the first nuclear-powered merchant ship. Constructed in the late 1950s, the vessel incurred a total cost of $46.9 million, encompassing a $28.3 million investment in a nuclear reactor and fuel core. Funded by various United States government agencies, the Savannah served as a demonstration project to showcase the potential applications of nuclear energy. Named in homage to the SS Savannah, the initial steamship to traverse the Atlantic Ocean, this vessel operated from 1962 to 1972, representing one of only four nuclear-powered cargo ships ever constructed. The Soviet icebreaker Lenin, launched on December 5, 1957, preceded the NS Savannah as the first nuclear-powered civilian ship.

Name: Savannah
- Owner: US Maritime Administration
Operator:
- 1962-1965: States Marine Lines, Inc.
- 1965-1972: American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines[1][unreliable source?]

- Port of registry: Savannah
- Ordered: 1955
- Builder: New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, United States
- Cost: $46,900,000 ($18,600,000 for the ship, and $28,300,000 for the nuclear plant and fuel)
- Yard number: 529
- Launched: July 21, 1959
- Sponsored by: Mamie Eisenhower
- Completed: December 1961
- Acquired: May 1, 1962
- Maiden voyage: August 20, 1962
- In service: 1964
- Out of service: January 10, 1972

Identification:
- IMO number: 5314793
- Callsign: KSAV
- Status: Museum ship

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
- Type: Nuclear-powered cargo ship
- Tonnage: 13,599 gross register tons (GRT); 9,900 long tons deadweight (DWT)
- Length: 596 ft (181.66 m)
- Beam: 78 ft (23.77 m)
- Installed power: One 74 MW Babcock & Wilcox nuclear reactor (LEU 4.6%) powering two De Laval steam turbines
- Propulsion: 20,300 hp (15,100 kW) (designed) single shaft

Speed:
- 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) (service speed)
- 24 knots (44 km/h; 28 mph) (maximum speed)
- Range 300,000 nmi (560,000 km; 350,000 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) on one single load of 32 fuel elements

Capacity
- 60 passengers
- 14,040 ton cargo capacity
- Crew: 124

Ship Model drawings - NS Savannah

(Source: Historic American Engineering Record)
https://www.loc.gov/

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