Posted on 08/16/2006 7:39:31 AM PDT by GATOR NAVY
The Savannah is eased up the Elizabeth River just past the Berkley Bridge by several tugs Tuesday on its way to Colonna’s Shipyard for cleaning and upgrades. BILL TIERNAN/THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
She did a stint at Patriot's Point near Charleston, South Carolina in the early 1990s. She was down there when I visited around that time, but I didn't go onboard.
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She needs to come home to Savannah, GA.
I toured the NS Savannah several times when it was in Charleston. It was still a beautiful craft then, and could be again with a little love and money.
It's time for her to come home.
Just noticed the line about the reactor. Unless they put it back in, it is gone. There was a giant hole in the deck where the reactor was, but, it was empty.
The NS Savannah passing under the Golden Gate Bridge enroute to the Seattle, WA World's Fair in 1962.
When I was there in 1987, the reactor was still in place. No fuel rods, of course, and you couldn't go into the reactor room, but there were windows through which you could look down into it.
No luck, but I sure do remember seeing her laid up circa 1973-75 in Galveston. My boss at the time had a fishing boat we used to fish the Galveston jetties and off shore rigs. And the sleek, smart lines of the Savannah are hard to forget. I remember her being there...
Surely there are some other Freepers who were in Galveston in the early 70s who might recall her also...
What a striking contrast that ship is. High tech engine and low tech cargo handling equipment. She's an old "boom ship" (named after her cargo booms)
prepare the ship for a new mission as a congressional boondoggle.
BTW from List of civilian nuclear ships
Mutsu, Japan
Otto Hahn, Germany
NS Savannah, United States
Sevmorput, Russia (former Soviet Union)
Re: "The sleek, white vessel was the world's first and the nation's only nuclear-powered cargo and passenger ship - the brainchild of President Eisenhower and part of his Atoms for Peace program in the 1950s."
BTW from List of civilian nuclear ships
Mutsu, Japan
Otto Hahn, Germany
NS Savannah, United States
Sevmorput, Russia (former Soviet Union)
do those ships also have cargo wenches?
"My folks tell me I went on the Savannah as a baby when the ship visited Seattle. My Mom talked about standing in line for hours to get onboard."
The Savannah also came to Portland, and my dad took my younger brother, a neighborhood friend and I to see it...we also stood in line, but I still have a mental image of the beautiful model of the original Savannah -- the first paddlewheel steamship to cross the Atlantic from America to Europe -- on display in the main dining room (?). I wonder if it's still there...
Interesting. I knew about the Russian ships but I had never heard of the Japanese or German ships.
It was here in Savannah waiting for the City Fathers to come up with a plan for a museum. Then it went to Charleston.
They must have put the reactor back in at some point. I went in 1984, so they could have.
It was my understanding that the thing was so severely contaminated that it had to be taken out of service
But no cargo wenches...
Is that an LKA?
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