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Nuclear Steamer Starts With Nixon Wife at Keel Laying
Mrs Richard M Nixon will lay the keel for the N S Savannah the first nuclear powered passenger cargo ship The ceremony marks National Maritime Day in Camden New Jersey with the ship’s first steel sections placed by New York Shipbuilding Corp workmen The vessel 850 feet long will operate for over three years on fuel and cost about 31 million dollars Officials expect it to be in operation on the high seas in 1980 and it will be the first ship to bear the N S designation)
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