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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