World's First Nuclear-powered Merchant Ship
World's First Nuclear-powered Merchant Ship
Clip: 356364_1_1
Year Shot: 1959
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1662
Original Film: 032-059-02
HD: N/A
Location: Camden, New Jersey
Timecode: 00:14:26 - 00:15:20
World's First Nuclear-powered Merchant Ship Mrs. Eisenhower launches the world's first nuclear-powered merchant vessel, N. S. Savannah. When fitted out, the pioneering craft will cruise the world's sea-lanes to dramatize President Eisenhower's 'atoms-for-peace' program. Scenes of ship with scaffolding (?) around it. Large and apparently interested crowds watch Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower christen ship. Ship moves into water.