I took a tour of her last Sunday during Baltimore Maritime Day. She is only open once a year and she is a wonderful ship. Beautiful lines and a fascinating history.
@bepyn4ik
Жыл бұрын
Are you sure? Cause online it says its open 7 days a week
@MtF_EeepyGrill_Leah_QT3.14
Жыл бұрын
The NS Savannah is definetely my favourite vessel. What a beaut
@henkbrink1345
11 ай бұрын
nice to see her back. My father took me to Rotterdam to go and see her in 1964 as she was the only ship without a funnel. Later I went sailing on the ss Rotterdam as an elektrician. Brings back memories. Thank you.
@johnlunnun9769
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful looking ship! The hull is a work of art!
@royfearn4345
Жыл бұрын
I remember buying a 1:1200 scale die-cast model of Savannah about 60 yrs ago. I still have it, although over the years it has lost its cargo derricks. Good that it's still around in real life!
@Fred_Raimer
Жыл бұрын
That was great! Thank you!
@jaybee9269
4 ай бұрын
Beautiful ship; love the mid-century interior.
@jkleylein
Жыл бұрын
I didn't realize the Savannah still existed. I'd heard of it when I was kid and never heard about any more civilian nuclear ships so I figured it was an unsuccessful one-off and had been scrapped long ago.
@johncantrell614
Жыл бұрын
Nice to see so many spaces opened up now. There was much less open to see and explore when she was here in Charleston, S.C.
@tonerotonero1375
Жыл бұрын
Many thanks for the video. The ship is too far away for me to visit but represents certainly a milestone in its own way. Regards from France.
@lilylou673
Жыл бұрын
I remember seeing Savanah moored at Galveston in the early 60’s. She had been there for awhile we were told because many harbors refused to let her enter. They were afraid of radiation.
@oberonpanopticon
Жыл бұрын
Radiophobia is probably in the top 10 most significant factors holding back human progress
@Studio23Media
Жыл бұрын
@@oberonpanopticonI see the huge benefits of nuclear fuel, but we still don't have a good solution for radioactive waste! We cannot keep poisoning the planet.
@VanshAnand-ib5dm
Жыл бұрын
@@oberonpanopticonwhat are the other 9?
@oberonpanopticon
Жыл бұрын
@@VanshAnand-ib5dm well, off the top of my head, in no particular order: our greed, our stubbornness, our tendency to judge others for completely unimportant reasons, our inability to truly see another person’s point of view, our fear of things we don’t understand (radiophobia falls into this category ofc), and uhhhhhh costco not making enough hotdogs.
@VanshAnand-ib5dm
Жыл бұрын
@@oberonpanopticon stubbornness is not a bad thing as long as it's for the right cause
@bagoistvan3182
Жыл бұрын
🧏♂️...anybody can say what ever they want but in my humble opinion the great tea clipper Cutty Sark🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 and the NS Savannah🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 are the most beautiful ships conceived by Mankind for travel above the sea weaves.....
@jadams3427
Жыл бұрын
What a fabulous ship !
@jadams3427
Жыл бұрын
I am making a CAD model of it that will be at GrabCad soon.
@Vector_QF8
Жыл бұрын
Great video! This is valuable to me, as I’m currently building a 1958 Life Like Model kit of the NS Savannah that I found in a local antique store. Thanks for posting!
@marcusfountain1694
Жыл бұрын
There's nothing like having a cargo vessel built like a sports car. ❤
@marcusfountain1694
Жыл бұрын
I'd like to add that there are racing yachts that don't look this good.
@MtF_EeepyGrill_Leah_QT3.14
Жыл бұрын
There is a sports car called the “mazda savanna,” funnily enough
@marcusfountain1694
Жыл бұрын
@Leighton_Garnett funny you should mention, I have that 1/72 model in a box still ,brand Aoshima
@Maxfrombuffalo
6 күн бұрын
Just saw her amazing ship staff was nice and Bob was absolutely amazing.
@floydrandol2731
Жыл бұрын
I’m Glad she’s still around, thought they sent her to the breakers like Enterprise and Long Beach!
@BaltimoreShipspotting
Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately it is still possible they will. Hoping she will become a museum ship, though!
@BradFalck-mn3pc
Жыл бұрын
It's funny I remember as a kid in school this vessel was in books as the "cutting edge" of technology
@twrecks4598
8 ай бұрын
Toured her when I was stationed in Charleston... she was at Patriot's Point, I think. There wasn't much to see.. it was basically an abandoned ship you were allowed to kinda mill around. There wasn't any furnished rooms or anything that I recall. Good to see she is still around today
@robertpoore7604
5 ай бұрын
I saw her there too many years ago.
@76notam
Жыл бұрын
super !:) she has a good style , nice for the atomic cargo /passagers
@thegrays3303
Жыл бұрын
Last time I was on this ship was when it at the Patriots Point Naval Museum in Charleston SC long long time ago.
@durango4u
Жыл бұрын
That’s where she was when I toured her. That would have been in 89.
@ksavage681
Жыл бұрын
We saw it there too, but didn't get to take a tour on it. Very sad we missed it.
@lefauxpas
2 жыл бұрын
Nice tour. Thanks!
@williamsecor7745
Жыл бұрын
I had a friend, Jon Fitts, in the eraly 70's who was the XO on the Savannah
@knutknutsen5610
7 ай бұрын
This ship could easily be put in operative modus again.
@fw1421
Жыл бұрын
Wow,I had no idea she was still around. I figured she had been scrapped long ago.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@aml1234561
8 ай бұрын
I do not doubt her beautiful exterior (I remember seeing her first in one of my childhood encyclopaedias) but what I would best describe as "American primitive" under the skin. Something which US merchant ships continue with to this day. I recently went on board a US tanker in Singapore dry dock and was appalled by the crude living conditions for everyone on board. Much worse than those found on the oldest ship I ever served on which was built in 1957!!!
@vote4carp
Жыл бұрын
Sweet tour! Too bad about all the screen time the microphone sock wanted for itself. 🤣 Thanks for uploading!
@MrShobar
Жыл бұрын
At 13:28, the S.S. John W. Brown can be seen docked behind the Savannah.
@fredblonder7850
Жыл бұрын
Here’s a video of me messing with the lamp-test buttons on the control-panel: kzitem.info/news/bejne/toOFrIRuj2qVf4o . We had the panel powered by a very long extension cord. This is the first time it has been powered in 50 years. A lot of the bulbs don’t work due to broken filaments, and the fact that three of the relays are missing. We hope to eventually have the entire panel operating, but this is a very long-term project.
@mitchcornacchia968
Жыл бұрын
So nice it wasn't cut up
@BaltimoreShipspotting
Жыл бұрын
She hasn't been cut up, still in Baltimore.
@battledragongun
Жыл бұрын
this ship was such a good consept to bad it never took off in away i understand both sides of the argument but at the same time it still a cool idea ship and with todays tech this idea coold be a good idea again and even better
@Buck1954
Жыл бұрын
I saw her in Galveston a loooong time ago. She was/is a beautiful ship. Just too expensive to operate as I understood her commercial demise.
@bagoistvan3182
Жыл бұрын
...that was only the narrative to justify the decision to whit drove her from line service. Her propulsion system was relaying on a very basic reactor design one of the first generations of naval reactors never intended for mass production or commercial efficiency. She was basically a proof of concepts. Admiral Rickover said at that time that designing and building naval reactors its not a scientific task but something like trying to produce works of art...and they are trying to make science from them..( id. from building naval reactors). NS Savannah remained a proof of concept because her reactor never got upgraded to the higher efficiency designs starting to appear in the mid 60's and with the inevitable costly refuelings occurring regularly the detractors got what they desired and lobbyists in Congress did the rest...Fortunately the decision to preserve her for the future generations was not lying with those who sidelined her and hopefully she will remain whit us for as long as Mankind exists on this planet....
@gregorymahalblythe
8 ай бұрын
When I was in high school the Savannah was part of Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum in Charleston, SC. My girlfriend and I had sex in the engine room, lol.😂
@jaybee9269
4 ай бұрын
Cool story.
@grogman1911
Жыл бұрын
After being in the nuclear navy, the plant layout, construction and controls of the Savannah is an example of how not to do nuclear power on a ship.
@BaltimoreShipspotting
Жыл бұрын
Interesting, would you be willing to go into more detail?
@grogman1911
Жыл бұрын
@@BaltimoreShipspotting No I cannot. Getting specific would violate any clearances held. Lets just say that by looking at what is out on the web from that era and how the Savannah is built, the builders did not take the KISS principle to heart. Rickover did it right.
@BaltimoreShipspotting
Жыл бұрын
@@grogman1911 Fair enough. Thanks.
@sc1338
Жыл бұрын
@@grogman1911douche 😂
@Shaken_AND_Stirred
Жыл бұрын
@@sc1338 bag
@bobellis2026
Жыл бұрын
I toured that ship in Philadelphia in 1959
@frankodom9537
Жыл бұрын
Thank you ! 🇺🇸
@rumplestilskin5776
Жыл бұрын
I've always thought the Savannah was a very handsome ship. Too bad all that technology is being let to sit there rotting.
@normangiven6436
Жыл бұрын
I toured this ship in 1980 in SC.
@jelliott4
2 жыл бұрын
Is it actually open to the public every day now as Google Maps indicates?
@BaltimoreShipspotting
2 жыл бұрын
No, see the last paragraph at the bottom here: www.ns-savannah.org/
@fredblonder7850
Жыл бұрын
May 21 of 2023 is the next open house. This is the one day a year Savannah is open to the public.
@zapfanzapfan
Жыл бұрын
Bit of bad timing when shipping went with containerization. Maybe nuclear power can come back for cargo vessels, they certainly aren't gonna cross the Atlantic or the Pacific on batteries.
@BaltimoreShipspotting
Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately nuclear doesn't seem to be in the works but wind power and LNG seem to be. We'll see what winds up happening in the future.
@zapfanzapfan
Жыл бұрын
@@BaltimoreShipspotting LNG is a very common fuel on ships where I live because of strict regulations on sulfur emissions. Others have converted from diesel to methanol.
@jimjoe9945
Жыл бұрын
@@BaltimoreShipspotting wind power. Sure.
@Coyote27981
Жыл бұрын
@@BaltimoreShipspottingwind is a gimmick, yeah sure you can save 1-2%, and thats worth lots of money. But you still paying/polluting 98%. And LNG, just takes too much space, and requires more caution to handle than a nuclear reactor. SMRs have a chance to provide an ideal powerplant for cargo ships. They are a bit expensive, but its coming down.
@MidnightVisions
Жыл бұрын
It's still afloat? 👀
@BaltimoreShipspotting
Жыл бұрын
For now. They're deciding on her future right now.
@rickpinelli1586
Жыл бұрын
Nice video, too bad your dead cat kept appearing in the frame.
@BaltimoreShipspotting
Жыл бұрын
Thanks - I now have a little standoff that I hope will help with that the next time I use this particular camera.
@HaddaClu
6 ай бұрын
I thought I read an article few months back that she was being dismantled. Is that not the case?
@BaltimoreShipspotting
6 ай бұрын
That is one of the options on the table, but not the one we're hoping for.
@drumswest5035
16 күн бұрын
Why the music and not the camera sound?
@garywidom
Жыл бұрын
This is a music montage? No information?
@BaltimoreShipspotting
Жыл бұрын
I intend to have information if I am able to do a more complete tour, this was just a quick tour.
@SoupyOatmeal
Жыл бұрын
Pretty pictures but little info.
@ashman187
Жыл бұрын
No tribble at all,
@jaydewitte2958
Жыл бұрын
Focus on the information plaques for a few seconds. You're all over the place. Calm down.
@BaltimoreShipspotting
Жыл бұрын
I am hoping I can do that in a future video. For this video I was in a group that was told to rush, there's one point in the video where I looked at a subject, turned to look at the sign and the guide was already yelling to get moving.
@jaydewitte2958
Жыл бұрын
@BaltimoreShipspotting Sorry, I didn't mean to sound rude. Thank you in advance for your future video.
@normanboyes4983
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for taking the time and trouble to do this. However the lack of narrative or subtitled explanations would add so much more value than background music. To any sea going engineer of a certain age it is all very familiar (bar the reactor itself) and it is certainly of its time - the control room panel layouts are a real mess and it’s amazing there were no operator induced failures. Once again thank you for sharing with us.😀👍
@BaltimoreShipspotting
Жыл бұрын
@@normanboyes4983 A more comprehensive an explanative video will come sometime in the future.
@superbmediacontentcreator
Жыл бұрын
Try doing some writing next time so you can tell the audience what in hell we are looking at. The fact that you have no sound at all but are so negligent that your dead cat windscreen was in almost every shot makes this video an even bigger joke. Well, at least I sort of assume the ship is in Baltimore. She was and still is a very pretty ship and it is so sad that she was shunned by the whole industry.
@superbmediacontentcreator
Жыл бұрын
@@cuchidesoto2686 A very nice presentation. You forgot to mention the nuclear plane.
@petersipp5247
Жыл бұрын
She has pretty lines. Cost too much to run. Plus non of the canals would let it pass through. Was restricted to Atlantic ocean runs. Lasted 12 yrs. Glad the charade is over for it.
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