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World’s first nuclear powered cargo ship sails today
The Savannah, built at New York Shipbuilding, leaves Camden for Yorktown on maiden voyage using limited reactor power while tests continue. Capt Gaston D DeGrote commands, aboard are naval liaison and medical observers. The ship can carry 40 000 tons of dry cargo 60 passengers and 1 extended medical tale describes no more than implied in source.
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Camden
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Savannah
Delaware River
New York Shipbuilding
Carp
Duck
Atlantic Ocean
Yorktown
Coast Guard Reserve Training Center
York River
Chesapeake Bay
Gaston D. DeGrote
New York