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🇺🇸🇩🇪🇭🇰Aviation, History, Politics DCA/MUC/HKG
This reminds me of the VTOL platform that was part of the TSR-2 program for a while
Channeling @unavaleable.bsky.social with some cooking content. Late night pot roast to go with ER season 5 at 1:30am.
I really enjoyed my visit! If you have a chance to go, it’s absolutely worth the trip to be transported back to the 60s and to learn about the history of a unique ship.
One fun thing is the vast # of ash trays placed throughout the ship for passengers and crew. They’re built into the bar tables, mounted on the wall of the engine room’s electronic control compartment, available in every elevator lobby, and even mounted in the lobby of the ship’s onboard hospital.
…AND HER REACTOR CONTAINMENT VESSEL! Savannah is the only place a regular person can walk around the inside of a nuclear reactor containment vessel.
But the best part of the tour is that Savannah has been decommissioned to the point where visitors can tour her engine room…
Visitors are able access a huge amount of Savannah’s internal spaces including passenger stateroom, crew quarters, the kitchen, and the bride.
The ship is also full of references to her unique atomic power plant throughout her public spaces. Special dish wear, light fixtures, door etchings, floor decorations, and an art piece behind the passenger bar designed to reference the periodic table of elements.
The public spaces have the same kind of gorgeous interior design as the passenger staterooms.
Savannah was a mixed passenger and cargo ship. In addition to her cargo holds forward of the superstructure, she also housed luxurious passenger cabins with the most contemporary interior design available at her commissioning.
Savannah is probably also the most beautiful cargo ship ever built with sweeping lines and a graceful curved superstructure.
Had a chance to visit the N.S. Savannah in Baltimore over the weekend. Savannah is the only nuclear powered cargo ship ever built by the United States as a tech demonstrator as part of Pres. Eisenhower’s Atom for Peace program.