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Wednesday, 14 August 2024

Basic characteristics of a 500 feet 30 knots speed general cargo nuclear propelled submarine calculated around 1962

Speed 30 knots. Dimensions 504 (overall) x 100.8 (breadth of hull) x 50.4 (depth of hull) feet, 51,374 tons displacement total (T) in long tons of 2,240 pounds, leightweight included lead ballast 30,077 tons, lead ballast 11,216 tons, liquid ballast 8,540 tons, free flooding water 380 tons, less liquid ballast deadweight 23,593 tons, less ballast deadweight 12,377 tons, deadweight cargo 12,070 tons, measurement 24,850 tons of cargo c 40 square feet/ton, bale cubic x 10 cubic feet cubic 994, 14,200 tons gross tonnage, 11,920 tons net tonnage, Horsepower 65,000 shp.Crew 59 men. Deadweight-displacement ratio 0.235.

Voyage costs excluding stevedoring and agency fees

Sea costs -dollars per day x days 476,100

Port costs-dollars per day x days 289,300

Total cost per voyage 765,400

There were two possible routes between the east coast of the USA-Canada and Europe.

Polar route7,425 miles, Los Angeles -San Francisco- Seattle-Vancouver(BC)-Unimak Pass-Bering Straight -North Pole- North Sea-United Kingdom-France-Denmark-Germany and return.

Canal route 8,920 miles, Vancouver (BC)-Seattle-San Francisco-Los Angeles-Panama Canal-Southampton-United Kingdom-France-Denmark-Germany and return.

Details of vessel capital costs in thousands of dollars

Hull 9,400

Hull engineering 2,840

Outfitting 3,770

Machinery (1) 28,370

Inspections&owners outfit 890

Engineering (8%) 3,550

Lead 4,270

Total 53,090

(1) “Although reactor costs per shaft horsepower declines in the larger sizes, this is largely offset by rising costs of propulsion machinery, reduction gears, etc”.

Manning requirement

Deck 22

Engineering 23

Stewards 14

Total 59

Source

M. Guralnick a.o. “Potential applications of nuclear energy in unusual ocean cargo carriers” in: E.E. Duckstad. Potential applications of nuclear energy in a marine environment. Washington, August 1959. 

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