NS Savannah
NS Savannah was the first nuclear-powered merchant ship, launched on July 21, 1959, two years after the Soviet ice-breaker Lenin, the first nuclear-powered civilian vessel.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Fort McHenry and Lazaretto Lighthouse.
Fort McHenry
Fort
Photo: ScottyBoy900Q, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort McHenry is a historical American coastal pentagonal bastion fort on Locust Point, now a neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. It is best known for its role in the War of 1812, when it successfully defended Baltimore Harbor from an attack by the British Royal Navy from Chesapeake Bay on September 13–14, 1814. Fort McHenry is situated 1¼ miles west of NS Savannah.
Lazaretto Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Lazaretto Point Light was a historic lighthouse in Baltimore harbor. Though long demolished, a replica stands near its original site. Lazaretto Lighthouse is situated 1 mile west of NS Savannah.
Pier 7 Heliport
Aerodrome
Pier 7 Heliport is a heliport located two miles east of Baltimore, Maryland, United States, on the Chesapeake Bay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Southeast Baltimore and St. Helena, Baltimore.
Southeast Baltimore
St. Helena, Baltimore
Neighborhood
St. Helena is a neighborhood in the cities of Baltimore and Dundalk in the U.S. state of Maryland. The border between the cities, which is also the border between Baltimore County and Baltimore City, divides the neighborhood.
O’Donnell Heights
Neighborhood
O'Donnell Heights is a neighborhood named for a public housing development in the far southeastern part of the city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. O’Donnell Heights is situated 1½ miles northeast of NS Savannah.
NS Savannah
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: nuclear-powered merchant vessel built in 1961
- Categories: merchant vessel, nuclear-powered ship, museum ship, ship, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Baltimore, Central Maryland, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.25857° or 39° 15′ 31″ northLongitude
-76.55543° or 76° 33′ 20″ westInception
1959Open location code
87F57C5V+CROpenStreetMap ID
way 173085505OpenStreetMap feature
historic=shipOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q1364576
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Satellite Map
Discover NS Savannah from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“NS Savannah” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “萨凡纳号核动力船”
- Chinese: “薩瓦那號核動力船”
- Czech: “NS Savannah”
- Dutch: “NS Savannah”
- Dutch: “Savannah”
- Finnish: “NS Savannah”
- French: “NS Savannah”
- German: “NS Savannah”
- German: “Savannah”
- Hebrew: “סוואנה”
- Indonesian: “NS Savannah”
- Italian: “NS Savannah”
- Italian: “Savannah”
- Japanese: “サヴァンナ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “NS «Savannah»”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “NS «Savannah»”
- Norwegian: “NS «Savannah»”
- Persian: “اناس ساوانه”
- Polish: “NS Savannah”
- Portuguese: “NS Savannah”
- Romanian: “NS Savannah”
- Russian: “Саванна”
- Slovenian: “NS Savannah”
- Spanish: “NS Savannah”
- Swedish: “NS Savannah”
- Ukrainian: “NS Savannah”
- Ukrainian: “Ядерне судно Саванна”
- “IMO 5314793”
- “N/S Savannah”
- “NS Savannah”
- “Savannah”
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