Keel laying of the nuclear-powered cargo and passenger ship, NS Savannah, at shipyard of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden New Jersey. Mrs. Pat Nixon, wife of Vice-President Richard M.Nixon, is seen at the keel laying of the ship, a center piece in President Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative. Scene at the Babcock and Wilcox company, where steel parts are being fabricated for the Savannah's nuclear reactor. The reactor head being molded. Uranium oxide fuel pellets being manufactured. Core filled with fuel pellets being lowered into the reactor. Animated diagram illustrates how the ship's reactor and propulsion system will work.View of shock-absorbing collision protection and radiation shielding being placed around the reactor shell. views of the ship under construction in the ways at the shipyard.Views of the ship's turbines manufactured by the De Laval Steam Turbine Company. A technician uses a brush to dust the precision gears of the DeLaval manufactured turbines. Meshed gears turning.
The Nuclear Ship ( NS ) Savannah during its test trials in the United States. The NS Savannah leaving the New York Shipbuilding Corporation yards at Camden New Jersey, enroute to Yorktown, Virginia, is seen passing the Delaware Memorial Bridge, as she cruises along the Delaware River. views of spray blowing across the ship underway. View of reactor control room, where increasing levels of power are demanded until full (100%) power is set on April 14, 1962 and the Savannah achieves a speed of 22 knots. The NS Savannah docks at her home port of Savannah, Georgia.
Famous passengers aboard ocean liner SS Manhattan (later USS Wakefield during World War II) in the United States. Flashbacks show the USS Manhattan being christened by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt on 5th December 1931. It is seen being launched from New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden New Jersey. View of maiden voyage on 10th August 1932, with passengers boarding the ship. It leaves a port for her first trip to Ireland, England, Germany and France. Couples dance aboard the deck of the SS Manhattan. Passengers including Babe Ruth, Jimmy Walker, Glenn Cunningham, and aviator Douglas Corrigan ("Wrong Way Corrigan") seen aboard the ship.
An autogiro starts an airmail service from Camden to Philadelphia. Men load mails on the autogiro. A parked plane in the background. The autogiro takes off. It lands on a field. The pilot shakes hands with two officials.
Newsreel of June 28, 1962 showing event 25 years earlier: Hindenburg disaster on 6th May 1937. Traffic passes on road. LZ-129 Hindenburg airship approaches Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey. Ground crew awaits Hindenburg's landing. Mooring mast in the background. Hindenburg catches fire and fuel tank bursts out of hull. Hindenburg engulfed in flames crashes into ground. Men run toward burning Hindenburg. Huge clouds of smoke arise from burning Hindenburg.
Crash of Hindenburg Zeppelin (airship) at Naval Air Engineering Station at Lakehurst in New Jersey, United States. Hindenburg Zeppelin (airship) in flight to New Jersey. Hindenburg come in for landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Crew makes preparation for landing on the ground. Landing lines are dropped form the Hindenburg. Hindenburg Zeppelin bursts into flames and falls to earth. Large smoke rises. Firefighters battle the flames. Remains of worlds largest airship. Ruins of Hindenburg after flames have been extinguished. Wreckage of engines of the large Zeppelin. Nose of the Zeppelin.
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