Boats - Sailing - Ships
Jul. 07, 1959 - The first nuclear-powered trade-ship of the world..will be launched on July 21st at the wharf of the New York Ship building Corporation om Camden/New Jersey. The wife of the American president will give the ship name Savannah The Savannah can - with a displacement of water of 11850tons (21840 tons when fully loaded) hold 9500 tons of freight and 100 passengers. Her highest speed will be 20 knots. The ship is powered by a reactor of pressure-water, fed with uranium-235. The costs of building will amount to about 40 million dollars (more than half of this amount will be spent for building the reactor). o.p.s. a model of the reactor, built into the Savannah
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