Welcome to our Savannah website celebrating this remarkable, stylish and pioneering combi liner. The nuclear ship Savannah was built in 1959 by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, USA for the U.S. Maritime Administration. She was a product of President Eisenhower's famous "Atoms for Peace" initiative and was designed as a  passenger cargo combi liner. She served as a roving goodwill ship as well as demonstrating the application of nuclear propulsion to commercial shipping. She was indeed the world's first nuclear powered merchant ship.

She was retired from service in 1971 and for a while was preserved at the Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum in South Carolina. In 1982 she was designated on the National Register of Historic Places. But in 1994 she was returned to the US Maritime Administration (MARAD) and stored in the James River Reserve Fleet.

Today she is in protective storage in Baltimore, Maryland, USA and then will undergo decommissioning of her nuclear reactor. After that it is likely that the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) will offer the ship for preservation. Thus she will live on for present and future generations as a lasting symbol of President Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative and as a platform for debating the merits of nuclear energy.

Her Regular Service Route: Roving Goodwill Ship and Experimental Nuclear Powered Ship

U.S. MARITIME ADMINISTRATION (MARAD), WASHINGTON D.C.

STATES MARINE LINES, NEW YORK

AMERICAN EXPORT LINES, NEW YORK