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N.S. Savannah : the world's first nuclear powered merchant ship

Description: Savannah and the use of nuclear power, illustrated with many color illustrations and diagrams.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1962
Call number: archHeaney
Creator: Heaney, Jack (1904-1972)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of JoAnne Heaney, 2010.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Associated people: Georges, Alexandre,; Heaney, JoAnne.
Associated organization: George G. Sharp (Firm)

N.S. Savannah illustrated with deck plans

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Savannah under the operation of the American Export Isbrandtsen Lines, with text and color illustrations of the ship's interiors, exteriors, the nuclear reactor, and deck layouts.

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418A-16 Flaring bow of the world's first nuclear powered merchant ship

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This collection contains the papers of naval architect, artist, and interior designer Jack Heaney primarily related to projects Heaney worked on in the mid 20th century at the New York City marine design and naval architectural firm of George G. Sharp Inc., and later at Jack Heaney and Associates. The bulk of the collection dates from the late 1930s to the 1960s and includes both professional and project records primarily reflecting Heaney's design work for cargo-passenger vessels, and some personal documents. The professional and project records in the collection includes design renderings and drawings of ship exteriors, interiors, furniture, and fixtures; photographs primarily of ship interiors; miscellaneous ephemera, often with graphic components by Heaney; publications and clippings profiling Heaney's work; and some miscellaneous correspondence. The largest section relates to the first nuclear cargo ship, the NS Savannah. Other ships and ship lines represented include the Robin Line, Delta Line, American President Lines, Great Lakes Ore Carriers, SS Aquarama, Gulf and South American Steamship, and the Farrell Lines. While most of the collection concerns Heaney's work, the Staten Island Ferries series also includes correspondence related to JoAnne Heaney's interior design work on the project in the late 1970s. The materials also include twelve of the first issues of Harmony in G. Sharp, the George G. Sharp firm's in-house magazine dating from the mid 1940s. The personal papers include three shipbuilding books and a notebook used by Heaney as a student; six pieces of student artwork dating from 1924 to 1926; and some additional postcards and pieces of ephemera.

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Interiors of the N.S. Savannah [press release]

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Savannah, dated April 10, 1962; portions of the text were used in the article "Interior Decor Epitomizes Advanced Design" in the August 1962 issue of Marine Engineering Log magazine (see Box 2, Folder 22).

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"Progression" by Jean Woodham for N.S. Savannah

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"Atomic freedom" Gwen Lux sculpture N.S. Savannah

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[Postcard of the NS Savannah]

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Savannah. Date supplied by cataloger based on history of the ship as a passenger liner operated by the American Export Isbrandtsen Lines.

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N.S. Savannah : the world's first nuclear powered merchant ship

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