| |
| | Station Information - NS Savannah |
 | | NS Savannah, named for SS Savannah, the first steam-powered vessel to cross the Atlantic Ocean, was the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, one of only three nuclear-powered cargo ships ever built (the others are NS Otto Hahn and the Russian container ship Sevmorput). |
 | | In 1955, President of the United States Dwight Eisenhower proposed building nuclear powered merchant ship. |
 | | The next year, Congress authorized NS Savannah as a joint project of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Maritime Administration, and the Department of Commerce. |
| www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/n/ns/ns_savannah.html (525 words) |
|