Ship Simulator
English forum => Ship Simulator 2008 => General discussions => Topic started by: thebigu99 on December 30, 2008, 04:47:13
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Hi it's me thebigu99 i have been wondering would it be nice if ship sim has the legendary N.S Savannah the first Nuclear powered cargo ship.
It would be awesome to add the N.S Savannah in Ship Sim.And the design of the ship is sleek and no exshaust fumes to smudge her white paint.
NS Savannah, named for SS Savannah, was the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, built in the late 1950s at a cost of $46.9 million, including a $28.3 million nuclear reactor and fuel core, funded by United States government agencies as a demonstration project for the potential usage of nuclear energy. Launched on 21 July 1959, she was in service between 1962–1972.NS Savannah is one of only four nuclear-powered cargo ships ever built.
In 1955, President of the United States Dwight Eisenhower proposed building a nuclear-powered merchant ship as a showcase for his "Atoms for Peace" initiative. The next year, Congress authorized NS Savannah as a joint project of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Maritime Administration (MARAD), and the Department of Commerce. She was designed by George G. Sharp, Incorporated, of New York City. Her keel was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, New Jersey. Her nuclear reactor was manufactured by Babcock and Wilcox. She was christened by U.S. First Lady Mamie Eisenhower at the ship's launching on 21 July 1959.
Savannah was a demonstration of the technical feasibility of nuclear propulsion for merchant ships and was not expected to be commercially competitive. She was designed to be visually impressive, looking more like a luxury yacht than a bulk cargo vessel, and was equipped with thirty air-conditioned staterooms (each with an individual bath), a dining facility for 100 passengers, a lounge that could double as a movie theater, a veranda, a swimming pool and a library. By many measures, the ship was a success. She performed well at sea, her safety record was impressive, her fuel economy was unsurpassed, and her gleaming white paint was never smudged by exhaust smoke. Even her cargo handling equipment was designed to look good. From 1965 to 1971, the Maritime Administration leased Savannah to American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines for revenue cargo service.
However, Savannah's cargo space was limited to 8,500 tons of freight in 652,000 cubic feet (18,000 m³). Many of her competitors could accommodate several times as much. Her streamlined hull made loading the forward holds laborious, which became a significant disadvantage as ports became more and more automated. Her crew was a third larger than comparable oil-fired ships and received special training after completing all training requirements for conventional maritime licenses. Her operating budget included the maintenance of a separate shore organization for negotiating her port visits and a personalized shipyard facility for completing any needed repairs.
No ship with these disadvantages could hope to be commercially successful. Her passenger space was wasted while her cargo capacity was insufficient. As a result of her design handicaps, Savannah cost approximately US$2 million a year more in operating subsidies than a similarly sized Mariner-class ship with a conventional oil-fired steam plant. The Maritime Administration decommissioned her in 1972 to save costs, a decision that made sense when fuel oil cost US$20 per ton. In 1974, however, when fuel oil cost $80 per ton following an energy crisis, Savannah's operating costs would have been no greater than a conventional cargo ship. (Maintenance and eventual disposal are other issues, of course.)
For a short period of time during the 1970s, after the Savannah was decommissioned, she was stored in Galveston, Texas, and was a familiar sight to many travelers on State Highway 87 as they crossed Boliver Roads on the free ferry service operated by the Texas Department of Highways.
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Nice ship, I would love to have it in the sim
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Thank you for replying but unfortunately i cannot work on it because i have work.I am an architect in Abu Dhabi i am working on the Emirates Tower project unfortunately it will finish in about 10 to 12 years.
I hope that you or anyone else will make it true. ;D
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Since the N.S Savannah is a sleek looking cargo-passenger ship it's Bridge also needs to be well detailed just like the jumbo javelin i know i am asking to much just make the bridge and the whole ship well and exquisitely detailed to satisfy customers thank you.
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As a nuclear powered ship, she would not be allowed in many of the harbors in the simulator.
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Hi and welcome mvsmith.
I still don't understand you what do you mean it will not be allowed on harbors or ports in ss?
I am not angry just confused.
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probably some security issues I think
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I dont understand what kind of security issue.
But it's just ship sim right not a real one the game could have a special port though.
more pics of her
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Is the ship still alive today?
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This is what really happened to savannah.
In 1981, the Savannah was obtained via bareboat charter for display at the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum near Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Although the museum had use of the vessel, ownership of Savannah remained with the Maritime Administration, and the Patriots Point Development Authority had to be designated a "co-licensee" for the ship's reactor. Periodic radiological inspections were also necessary to ensure the continued safety of the ship. Once Savannah was open for display, visitors could tour the ship's cargo holds, view the reactor spaces from an observation window, look into staterooms and passenger areas, and walk the ship's decks.
The museum had hoped to recondition and improve the ship's public spaces for visitors, but these plans never materialized. Savannah never drew the visitors that the museum's other ships, notably the aircraft carrier YorktownTemplate:WP Ships USS instances, did. When a periodic MARAD inspection in 1993 indicated the need for dry docking the Savannah, Patriots Point and the Maritime Administration agreed to terminate the ship's charter in 1994. The ship was moved from the museum and dry docked in Baltimore, Maryland in 1994 for the repairs, after which she was moved to the James River Merchant Marine Reserve Fleet near Newport News, Virginia. The fuel in her nuclear power plant was removed upon retirement, though parts of the system that still contain radioactivity are on board.
The Maritime Administration has funded decommissioning and removal of the ship's nuclear systems. The Savannah had undergone work at Colonna's Shipyard of Norfolk, Virginia, beginning 15 August 2006. That $995,000 job included exterior structural and lighting repairs, removing shipboard cranes and wiring, refurbishing water-damaged interior spaces, and removing mold, mildew and painting some of the interior. On 30 January 2007, she was towed to Pier 23, which is owned by the City of Newport News. On 8 May 2008, the NS Savannah arrived in Baltimore under tow from Norfolk, for removal of the vessel's remaining radioactive material.The Savannah is expected to remain in Baltimore for up to 3 years under a $588,380 U.S. Maritime Administration contract with the Vane Brothers' shipyard at the Canton Marine Terminal in the Canton section of Baltimore.
Since the NS Savannah is historically significant and has been designated a National Historic Landmark, MARAD has expressed interest in offering the ship for preservation once Savannah's DDR (Decommissioning, Decontamination and Radiological) work is completed. A MARAD spokesman told The Baltimore Sun in May 2008 that the maritime agency envisions the ship's eventual conversion into a museum, but that no investors have yet offered to undertake the project.
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So anyone wants this ship to be in SS.
I hope people will agree that the N.S Savannah will be put into service in SS soon.
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Hi and welcome mvsmith.
I still don't understand you what do you mean it will not be allowed on harbors or ports in ss?
I am not angry just confused.
In many countries anti-nuclear paranoia is so high that nuclear powered vessels are not allowed in, for fear of a major disaster. Nor are vessels transporting nuclear fuel or waste products.
Thank you for the welcome, but I’ve been around for a while.
At Columbia University in the mid 50s I worked on studies of heat transfer in Savannah’s reactor.
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Oh thank you for the reply mvsmith but this is SS okay not real life so that we can add whatever vessels we want even nuclear or non-nuclear.Seeing the N.S Savannah left out of SS is just sad and breaks the N.S Savannah spirit and my heart.
Any ways i hope VSTEP will make it a reality.It's just ship sim ok it's not real life ok IT IS JUST A GAME so we can add the N.S Savannah.And i dreamed of being her captain.Anyways SS does really need a special ship though and in my opinion the N.S Savannah is the perfect ship for the job.
Mvsimth i am not offending you it's just that N.S Savannah is to beutiful to be left out of the NO.1 maritme simulator.I know all those laws and anti nuclear stuff but that is in real-life but this is a game with no restriction even though that ship is not allowed on that port and that boat is not allowed on that port ecetera ecetera.
All i am saying is that the N.S Savannah is just too beutiful to be left out of SS anyways i hope VSTEP or anyone will make it a true dream. ;D
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I was not saying that NS Savannah should not be in the sim, I was commenting on today’s reality.
You should, however, spend some time reading the many topics on adding ships to the simulator. You will see that the chance of getting any particular ship added is extremely low, because of the massive work involved, and the fact that there are very few third-party modelers who have the ability to produce ships that meet the stringent requirements.
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I know mvsmith i am just sorry ok anyways do you know any good stuff so that i can built my N.S Savannah to SS a free one of course because i want the ship so badly in ship sim a good modelling program so that i can model it then convert it to SS to be playable and sailable of course tell me which free program is it.
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Oh i have bad news i will not be able to construct the N.S Savannah personally because my boss just said i have to be in the office all the time even if i get home i will be late it is not an excuse i hope anyone here who is incredibly skilled at modelling would make the N.S Savannah for me and i will credit them to VSTEP or to this post or i will create a new topic to credit the builders of N.S Savannah for Ship Sim.
I am sorry not being able to construct it myself i must count on some very skilled builders here i will credit you in my posts or i will ask VSTEP to credit anyone who builds the N.S Savannah (NSS) please can i count on anyone or not although i am not forcing you.
If anyone agree's to make it then it must have a very and exquisitely detailed Bridge interior just like the jumbo javelin i will gladly be a help to the research and construction but no always though and the exterior too thank you.
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Look people the reason i want the N.S Savannah to be in SS is because it is beutiful,sleek looking and by the looks of the ship there is not one black exhaust fume smudge on her paint.
And that SS needs to have a special ship just to satisfy customers and the NSS(Nuclear.Ship Savannah)is a nuclear ship which makes her a special ship for SS then people will also remember the golden ages of Nuclear power for Peace.
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It looks an interesting ship, reminds me of the Cap San Diego at first glance,
Please, try not to post more than once in a row. If you need to add anything, please click "modify" and add it to an exisitng post.
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Hi and welcome nathan
So do you want it to be in SS.
i will not post more than 1 reply's or post
anyways i would really like this ship in SS if only i knew how to model but i am working all the time.
Please anyone make it a sucess.
You could say that i'm N.S Savannah crazy well yes i am i love the ship because she's the pretiest ship ever.
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So do you want it to be in SS.
I think any addition to the game would be welcome ;)
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I might start working on the ship sometime, but not for the game, since I don't have the real tools for that.
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Thank you people i have been grateful to you for deciding to put in SS or not maybe for VS i dont know but take your time if you still want to decide.
People you are not gonna beleive this not only was the ship looks good but her cargo handling equipment was meant to look good!
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Well at now I'm a busy with something else. But before I start I would start on a much smaller project, since I'm not very familiar with the program I'm using, which is Gmax.
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Thats ok minime take your time to learn first then you can tell me when it is fully operational.
See the N.S Savannah wasn't design to carry large amounts of cargo but design as a SHOWBOAT!!!! hahaha. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :o :o :o :o
Want to see more about this ship visit http://www.paint.org/meetings/marine/marine3_06.pdf
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Refueling a nuclear powered ship. :o
Naa, I've bee inside a nuclear reactor before. Know all about em' ;D
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Really llamalord oh and welcome.
So do you want it to be in SS
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Nice clean well rounded vessel... Why not... I like nuclear! ;D
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Nice clean well rounded vessel... Why not... I like nuclear! ;D
Thank you llamalord this ship would be a perfect fit for SS since it is so special i would like to sail it in the antartic regions well everywhere but i doubt this ship can even break ice.
Well if anyone want's to make this ship for me i will be very happy to help you but i am not always available.
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Nuclear powered ship? no thanks. It also looks unbalanced and is not very appealing to me, sorry
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Hi and welcome RMSGreatBritain
Well i cannot force people to like the ship anyways it's okay i guess there are some people who dont like ships like these.
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Hi and welcome RMSGreatBritain
Well i cannot force people to like the ship anyways it's okay i guess there are some people who dont like ships like these.
What do you mean welcome bigu99? I've been here since september, I've made over 740 posts! Maybe you havnt seen me before, I spend most of my time in the small talk section. But welcome to you, I see you've been here just over a week. Nice to meet you :)
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Just a note for everyone who likes that stylish ship - here you can buy a very good model of the vessel: www.classic-ship.de - or directly: http://www.classic-ship.de/savannah-p-224.html?osCsid=6dji4j0r6rurgdep3ltjjlt2q4
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He means welcome to the topic, I think ;)
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He means welcome to the topic, I think ;)
That's right minime thank you for telling him.
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Welcome to the realm of books about college pranks gone wrong such as pianos going through roofs and killing deans. -Reference to The Big "U"
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Welcome to the realm of books about college pranks gone wrong such as pianos going through roofs and killing deans. -Reference to The Big "U"
I dont quite understand you?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_U
It's also your username ;) (In case you didn't know that :laugh: )
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He means welcome to the topic, I think ;)
That's right minime thank you for telling him.
Oh I see thanks guys, sorry about that ;)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_U
It's also your username ;) (In case you didn't know that :laugh: )
Yep that's my username.
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I thought the thebigu refered to the SS United States. My my the things you learn
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I have more pics of her.
N.S Savannah specs.
Type: Nuclear-powered cargo ship
Tonnage: 13599 GRT
Displacement: 9900 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 powering two De Laval steam turbines
Propulsion: 20,300 hp to a single propeller
Speed: 21 kn (38.89 km/h) (servÃce speed)
24 kn (44.45 km/h) (maximum speed)
Range: 300,000 nautical miles at 20 knots on one single load of 32 fuel elements
Capacity: 60 passengers
14,040 ton cargo capacity
Crew: 124
More info on Her.
By the time Savannah completed her trials, the United States had added more than a dozen nuclear submarines to join USS Nautilus, as well as the guided missile cruiser Long Beach (the Navy's first nuclear surface ship), and the first nuclear aircraft carrier, Enterprise. The Soviet Union also had nuclear submarines, as well a nuclear icebreaker.
On the first leg of her voyage, the proud ship and crew suffered embarrassment after a faulty pressure indicator initiated a reactor "scam." Unfortunately, this caused the media to mistakenly report that she had suffered a major nuclear failure. Based on performance, Savannah's operators were pleased that the power plant exceeded the projected 20,000 shaft horsepower by more than ten percent; and, instead of a speed of 20 knots, she cruised steadily at 24 knots. The ship's operators boasted: The response of the power plant in meeting changes in steam demand has been excellent. While it is difficult to compare performance qualitatively with that of a conventional ship, it can be said that the Savannah reactor can meet large changes in load demand in roughly one half to one quarter of the time required for a conventional power plant.
As the first of her kind, Savannah broke new ground in establishing various types of operating procedures. New rules governing the operation and docking of commercial nuclear vessels at domestic and foreign ports emphasized safety from potential nuclear hazards. In each port she visited, arrangements were made to have stand-by tug services to move the ship out to sea in the event of a nuclear accident. Of concern to foreign authorities was the potential liability associated with nuclear-ship operation. While no private insurance was provided for Savannah, the U.S. Government bolstered the ship's acceptability to foreign authorities by extending the provisions of the Price-Anderson Act. This Act provided a $500,000,000 indemnification to cover claims filed against AEC-licensed facilities by victims of nuclear accidents.
Savannah's accomplishments in securing permission to enter foreign ports had implications beyond future prospects for a nuclear maritime fleet. Breaking ground with a ship of such benign intentions, which was engineered under rigorous safety guidelines, undoubtedly facilitated the world-wide acceptance of America's growing nuclear Navy fleet as well. After cruising through the Panama Canal, and port visits along the West Coast and Hawaii, Savannah became a popular exhibit at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair during a three week visit. In early 1963 she returned to her special facilities at Galveston for a 30,000-mile check-up, which included general system upgrading and miscellaneous repair work. In addition, she underwent her annual U.S. Coast Guard and American Bureau of Shipping certifications.
While this work was underway a labor dispute erupted. Savannah's engineering officers had been allotted extra pay in compensation for their additional nuclear training. The deck officers, however, cited the tradition that they receive higher pay than engineering officers. After a labor arbitrator ruled in favor of the traditional pay scale, the engineers shut the reactor down in protest in May of 1963. When the engineers refused to go back to work, the Maritime Administration canceled its contract with States Marine Lines and selected American Export Isbrandtsen Lines as the new ship operator. The resulting need to train a new crew interrupted Savannah's demonstration schedule for nearly a year.
Although the change in operators alleviated the immediate labor problem, the failure to resolve this dispute would forever cloud the feasibility of nuclear merchant ships. Many feared that abandoning the Masters, Mates, and pilots (M.M.& P.) and the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association (MEBA) trade unions merely deferred the necessary resolution of this conflict. After all, these two unions represented deck and engineering officers on a majority of all other U.S.-flag operated ships.
In the spring of 1964 Savannah was again underway with a tour of Gulf Coast and East Coast ports. She began her maiden transatlantic voyage later that summer (New York to Bremerhaven in ten days). At her first four European port visits (Bremerhaven, Hamburg, Dublin, Southampton), 150,000 people toured the ship. Before these foreign port visits, representatives from the U.S. Department of Commerce and the ship's operating company traveled to meet with officials at each port. Permission to dock was not authorized until all three parties were satisfied with the ship's projected operations while in port.
After travelling a total of 90,000 miles, and hosting 1.4 million visitors, Savannah's passenger/cargo demonstration phase was completed in 1965. She had visited 28 domestic and 18 foreign ports in 13 countries. She had carried 848 passengers, and 4,800 tons of cargo.48 In preparation for Savannah's commercial demonstration phase, her passenger spaces were sealed and 1,800 tons of solid ballast were removed. First Atomic Ship Transport, Inc. (FAST), a subsidiary of American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines, was licensed to operate the ship for three years as a cargo vessel. To compensate for the expense of operating a demonstration vessel, FAST was given a one dollar per year lease on the ship, with no charge for the fuel.49 Despite delays caused by the replacement of the main coolant pumps, on August 5, 1965, the Atomic Energy Authority issued to the operator nuclear reactor operator's license, serial number NS-1.
In September, 1965 Savannah departed New York for her first commercial voyage with a capacity load of 10,000 tons of general cargo. During 1967 her cargo activity generated $2,600,000 in revenue. Furthermore, while performing as a cargo vessel, Savannah continued to fulfill her responsibilities as goodwill ambassador in visits to ports in Europe, Africa, and the Far East.
After travelling 350,000 miles (or the equivalent of nearly 14 times around the world), Savannah returned to Galveston in late 1968 for maintenance and her first refueling. Although a complete reactor core was ready for installation, it was not needed. Only four of the original 32 fuel bundles required replacement. The remaining bundles were rearranged to compensate for variations in fissioning activity depending on their original proximity to the core's center.
Just when the momentum for an enlarged U.S. nuclear merchant fleet should have been greatest, the single largest client for such a fleet decided to use traditionally powered vessels exclusively. The Defense Department, a major customer of U.S. shipping, concluded that oil-fired freighters were more cost- effective than nuclear ships. Furthermore, with budgetary priorities of the mid 1960s shaped by the Vietnam Conflict, funding for the nuclear merchant program was at risk. Later, the Maritime Administration and the Atomic Energy Commission initiated significant cutbacks in funding for the merchant ship reactor program. Even though the ship's operators described her as "the most reliable ship we have operating," the Maritime Administration decided that little more could be gained by adding to the $90,000,000 thus far invested in the Savannah project. A last-minute suggestion for the Army to use the nuclear ship as a floating emergency power plant was not acted upon.
By late 1970, Savannah had traveled more than 450,000 miles to 32 domestic ports, and 45 foreign ports in 26 countries. The 163 pounds of uranium she consumed was estimated to have provided the equivalent power of nearly 29,000,000 gallons of fuel oil. Included among Savannah's accomplishments, was the production of nearly $12,000,000 in revenue during her first five years of cargo operation (1965 to 1970).
Savannah was deactivated in late 1971, and presented to Savannah, Georgia, in early 1972 as part of a proposed Eisenhower Peace Memorial. Adequate support for the peace memorial never materialized. Several years later, Congress passed public law 96-331, which authorized the Secretary of Commerce to transfer the ship (under a bare boat charter) to the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum in South Carolina. Since late 1981, she has served as a floating exhibit in Charleston Harbor. N.S. Savannah was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 1982. In 1983 Savannah was dedicated as an International Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
The Nuclear Ship Savannah is a boldly-styled passenger/cargo vessel powered by a nuclear reactor. NS Savannah was one of a kind, the ultimate in break bulk merchant ship design. She was meant to light the way toward a brave new world of oceangoing commerce: Proud freighters ploughing the seas as their nuclear reactors silently, cleanly, and efficiently converted water to steam to turn banks of mighty turbines. That was the vision embodied by the NS Savannah, the first commercial nuclear cargo ship ever built. Among maritime history buffs, Savannah has assumed legendary status.
The N.S. SAVANNAH (NSS) is the world's first nuclear-powered merchant ship. In 1955, President Eisenhower proposed that the United States build the world's first atomic-powered merchant vessel to demonstrate America's peaceful use of the atom. In 1956, Congress authorized construction of the Nuclear Ship SAVANNAH as a joint project of the Maritime Administration and the Atomic Energy Commission. She was built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, New Jersey between 1958 and 1962. The N.S. SAVANNAH is 600 feet long with a displacement of 22,000 tons. She was designed as a combination cargo-passenger vessel, with a capacity of 9,400 tons of general cargo, 60 passengers and 124 crew.
The N.S. SAVANNAH is equipped with a pressurized light water moderated and cooled low enrichment uranium dioxide (U-235 4.4%) fueled reactor with a maximum power rating of 80 Megawatts (thermal). The reactor-supplied steam was employed in the ship's propulsion system (geared steam turbine), which was capable of delivering in excess of 22,000 shaft horsepower to a single propeller, with a designed ship's service speed of 21 knots.
The Savannah -- a showcase for the Eisenhower Administration's "Atoms for Peace" initiative -- was christened in 1959 by First Lady Mamie Eisenhower. After the ship was commissioned, MARAD took title to and responsibility for the ship. MARAD's contribution was the ship, the AEC's was the reactor and related nuclear systems. The reactor was first brought to power in 1961, with seagoing trials following in 1962. The AEC ended its participation in the project in about 1965, transferring liability and title of the reactor to MARAD.
The ship proved to be a technically brilliant but commercially unviable exercise. On the positive side of the ledger, Savannah steamed more than 450,000 miles from 1959 to 1971. In her five years of cargo operation (1965-1970, following several years of at-sea shakedown tests), she generated some $12 million in revenue -- real money back then. The 163 pounds of uranium she consumed is estimated to have provided the equivalent power of nearly 29 million gallons of fuel oil. She was a wonder of the sea lanes, not surprising given that this was the era when Detroit was toying with the idea of nuclear-powered concept cars and aircraft makers were designing atomic planes. In a day when nuclear power was synonymous with the highest of high technology, some 1.4 million people visited Savannah at her ports of call. She was quite a goodwill ambassador.
There was a downside to the Savannah story, though. In commerce, the bottom line is the bottom line, and on those terms, Savannah just didn't measure up. She required a crew of more than 100 highly trained sailors, including nuclear technologists and engineers. Comparable conventional ships required only 20 to 30 hands. The death knell for the Savannah -- and for commercial nuclear shipping -- came when the DoD, a major customer of US-flagged shipping, inevitably and appropriately concluded that oil-fired freighters were more cost-effective than nuclear ships.
NSS was operated in experimental and commercial demonstration service throughout the 1960's. Having completed its research and development objectives, the ship was removed from service in mid-1970. When alternative uses for the ship failed to materialize, its nuclear power plant was defueled, partially decommissioned, and prepared for long-term lay-up under contemporary best practices.
The SAVANNAH was maintained in lay-up status until defueled in late 1971. From 1973 onwards the ship was permanently removed from service, and the nuclear facility was partially decommissioned in 1975-76. From 1981 to 1994 the vessel was bareboat chartered to the Patriots Point Development Authority, Charleston, SC for public display as a museum ship. During that period the PPDA was designated a "co-licensee" for the reactor and exercised custody of the ship - but ownership remained with MARAD. The NSS charter was terminated by mutual agreement in 1994. SAVANNAH was removed from Patriots Point in May 1994; drydocked at Baltimore, Maryland in June-July 1994.
After drydocking, the NSS was placed in MARAD's James River Reserve Fleet near Newport News, Virginiafor long-term retention in accordance with the circa 1970 lay-up plan. The NSS is currently moored along side the Nuclear Barge STURGIS in the James River Reserve Fleet (JRRF) near Fort Eustis, Virginia. MARAD has no present plans to dispose of the ship itself. The NSS is a registered National Historic Landmark, and in the future MARAD hopes to develop a program for its long-term preservation.
Although less than fifty years old, N.S. Savannah possesses exceptional national significance as the first application of nuclear power to a commercial ship; and as the structure most associated with President Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace initiative. The combination passenger/cargo ship demonstrated to the world the safe and reliable operation of this new technology, resulted in the establishing of a nuclear ship training program for civilian crew members, established procedures for commercial nuclear ships to enter domestic and foreign ports, and identified a series of issues which would require resolution in a second generation of commercial nuclear ships (disputes over crew pay scales, liability, and commercial viability). In addition to her important role in maritime history, Savannah served a unique public relations role as a floating exhibit on the peaceful use of nuclear energy. In this context, she traveled more than 450,000 miles to 32 domestic ports and 45 foreign ports, and was visited by more than 1.4 million people. This level of public exposure was unprecedented for a nuclear facility. A concurrent benefit of this favorable exposure was the acceptance of naval nuclear ships in foreign ports. N.S. Savannah became a symbol of Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace initiative.
So you people like this ship ;D ;D ;D :) :) :) :) :angel: :angel: :angel:
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This is your second offense of plagiarism. :-\
This was all taken with no citation from: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/savannah8.htm (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/savannah8.htm)
Although it is fairly obvious that you didn't write all this for a forum post it would not hold up in a Judicial system. :-X
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This is your second offense of plagiarism. :-\
This was all taken with no citation from: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/savannah8.htm (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/savannah8.htm)
Although it is fairly obvious that you didn't write all this for a forum post it would not hold up in a Judicial system. :-X
You know what i took them all from wiki to global security come on don't insult me please for the love of god llamalord i will credit them.
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I am attempting to quell any potential fights that may arouse in the next few posts so please do not take my actions as insulting ones.
It is important to cite any resources because of criminal punishment. Also it was not clear where these came from. It took me some time to find them personally.
You did add a citation to your latest topic and if you go look there you will see that I have thanked you with Gratitude.
Please do not start a fight... ...Please. :angel:
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I am attempting to quell any potential fights that may arouse in the next few posts so please do not take my actions as insulting ones.
It is important to cite any resources because of criminal punishment. Also it was not clear where these came from. It took me some time to find them personally.
You did add a citation to your latest topic and if you go look there you will see that I have thanked you with Gratitude.
Please do not start a fight... ...Please. :angel:
Look i am sorry llamallord i thought you are going to go to the authorities sorry. :angel: :angel: :'( :'( :'( ;) ;)
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I would never do such a thing. :o I'm a good guy. ;D
Although cleaners that put holes in expensive carpets might find them selves in small claims court. ::) <==True
No, I try to be every ones friend. Let's Bury the hatchet and start over.
I do like this suggestion for a ship though and I see you becoming very prominent in the forum. ;)
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I would never do such a thing. :o I'm a good guy. ;D
Although cleaners that put holes in expensive carpets might find them selves in small claims court. ::) <==True
No, I try to be every ones friend. Let's Bury the hatchet and start over.
I do like this suggestion for a ship though and I see you becoming very prominent in the forum. ;)
Thank you llamalord i apologize you i agree let's start over so thought about this elegant ship yet.