Nuclear Powered ships

[Colin Wood]

See in 'Clippings' of 6/7, that Norwegian government is supporting Ulstien Thor in developing zero emission nuclear power for shipping.
No doubt our zero emission government will have nothing to do with them. I wonder whether the cave men of the Greens, Labour and MUA will ban them fro Australian ports. It looks like Australia is the only country not using nuclear to get to zero by 2050.

Oh well, the aborigines did not have it 70 million years ago, so we should not use it now.

[Graham Payne]

I was on the "Oronsay" docked in Lisbon in 1963.
Tied up in front of us was the "Savanah" a Nuclear powered cargo ship from the U.S.A.
A nice good looking ship, possibly someone here might have a picture of it.

[vic mcclymont]

If my memory serves me correctly most ports banned the Savanah.
Vic

[Doc Vernon]

I was on the "Oronsay" docked in Lisbon in 1963.
Tied up in front of us was the "Savanah" a Nuclear powered cargo ship from the U.S.A.
A nice good looking ship, possibly someone here might have a picture of it.

Hello Graham
Not sure on this , but possibly this is the one you talk of? It has two nn in it ?? Savannah!
Cheers

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[James Curry]

That is her Vernon ,

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NS Savannah was the first nuclear-powered merchant ship. She was built in the late 1950s at a cost of $46.9 million (including a $28.3 million nuclear reactor and fuel core) and launched on July 21, 1959. She was funded by United States government agencies. Savannah was a demonstration project for the potential use of nuclear energy.

Nuclear Ship Savannah. The N.S. Savannah (NSS), a registered National Historic Landmark and the world's first nuclear-powered merchant ship, was launched in 1959 to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy as part of the Atoms for Peace Program. After the NSS completed its mission, the ship was removed from service and the reactor was defueled.

[J Gowers]

The Savannah near Charleston, 1975. Photo taken from a Denholms boxboat.

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[Ralph Knowles]

I remember seeing her at a lay-up berth just outside Georgia Port Authority near the power station at Savannah, Georgia in the early seventies. I was an engineer on MV Troll Park, loading cellulose pulp and liner board, for European ports. Heard that she had been moved further north after that.

[J Gowers]

I could not remember where I took the photo thinking it was either Savannah from the Arctic Troll (1976) or Charleston and from the Euroliner (1975) checked the date on the slide, it was all slidesI took in those days which I have now scanned, and it was October 1975 and found the info below on the web so the photo must have been taken in Charleston .

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[Graham Shaw]

The NS SAVANNAH-I saw the ship a couple of times in the mid 70's when I was on the Med to - U.S.ECoast/Gulf run.We didn't often get time ashore-but always made our way to the famous haunted Pirates House on the Historic Riverfront- part of this lovely port city. I can't remember whether she was still in service or a museum ship-but the Pirates House certainly won the ''What shall we do" toss up ,after all,that Savannah was 'just another ship'and we had better things to do,like eat and have a pint or two !-but wish I'd visited her now ! I read she was moved up the coast to Charleston,SC in 1980,then to Baltimore in 2009.

I also remember seeing another nuclear powered ship,the German ore carrier NS OTTO HAHN,somewhere on my voyages. She was built later than Savannah,in 1968, but was re-engined in 1980.

[Mo Docherty]

The Soviet icebreaker Lenin was the world's first nuclear-powered surface vessel in 1959 and remained in service for 30 years (new reactors were fitted in 1970). It led to a series of larger icebreakers, the 23,500 ton Arktika class of six vessels, launched beginning in 1975 fellas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WvDz_OTc9w