- Collection:
- Historic Postcard Collection (Georgia Archives)
- Title:
- N. S. Savannah, in the Savannah River
- Creator:
- Dixie News Company
- Date of Original:
- 1900/1979
- Subject:
- Rivers--Georgia--Savannah
Coasts--Georgia--Savannah
Ships--Georgia--Savannah
Boats and boating--Georgia--Savannah
Nuclear ships--Georgia--Savannah
Savannah River (Ga. and S.C.)
Savannah (Nuclear ship) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The Nuclear Ship Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is the namesake of the famous SS Savannah, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic ocean, in 1819. Home port of the 22,000 ton vessel, is Savannah, Georgia. She is 595 1/2 feet long, has a normal cruising speed of 20 knots, carries 60 passengers, a crew of 110 and about 10,000 tons of dry cargo and cost some $47,000,000. The N. S. Savannah, a joint project of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Maritime Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce, in her voyages to world ports symbolizes America's peaceful use of the mighty atom.
- Metadata URL:
- https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/postcard/id/417
- Additional Rights Information:
- Postcards published after 1923 may be covered by copyright. The Georgia Archives cannot provide permission to publish.
- Extent:
- Visual image
- Original Collection:
- Historic Postcard Collection, RG 48-2-5, Georgia Archives
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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