Any NS Savannah builders out there?

kp80 -  I hope you got your father down on tape (or some more modern recording medium).  If not, please do it as soon as possible.  Your kids and grandkids will thank you.

I have the Revell kit but I haven't started it. There is a good view of the deck on the Global Security site:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/savannah-pics.htm

The August, 1962 National Geographic has a lot of good pictures, and should be available almost anywhere.  Good detail shots of the bridge, decks, and the stabilizer fins.  Lots of good information on the web, with scans of a brochure at:

http://www.radiationworks.com/version2/NSSavannah.htm 

The MARAD site for the work currently underway is just a placeholder, but hopefully will be updated someday:

http://www.marad.dot.gov/Offices/MSP/Ship_Operations/NSS/SAVANNAH_Home.html 

Onyxman, Andrew,

Thanks for the links, had not seen these.  I just checked them out and now have them bookmarked.  Plenty of great pics and info I can make use of.  Reading some of the info on those links gave me some recollection.  When I was at Kings Point in the mid-70's, one of my professors was a 1st assistant engineer on the Savannah, and one day he let us go rummaging through some old textbooks stored in a room in the basement of our engineering building.  We found some books marked "NS Savannah Training Program," one of which I still have, but it's a calculus book...what the heck was I thinking!  I probably passed up on something much better!  When I worked at Todd Shipyards in New Orleans, we had a barge named "Harbor Servant," which I was told was the "Atomic Servant," but renamed so the locals would not get nervous.  I had toured Todd's Galveston yard during the interview process and recall walking through the ruins of a building that was formerly used for servicing the Savannah.  A shame this is all gone.  Also, although NY Shipbuilding went out of business, the designer George Sharp is still in business, and still uses the Savannah in their logo http://www.georgesharp.com/.

JTilley,

Regretably I didn't get him on tape. I wasn't quite expecting that reaction at that time, but probably should have anticipated it.  Hopefully I'll get another opportunity when I see him later this spring.  My ankle now hurts as I kick myself.

That is something that you really should do. My grandfather use to tell me stories about wwII when he was a cargo pilot on the c-47 in the pacific during the Island hopping campaigns. I never had a chance to record our conversations but I did write some of them down, but not all of it. I am also kicking myself over that one.

I went abaord the Savannah when she was at Todds in Galveston. The one thing I remember was they had portholes that consisted of two panes of polarized glass. You could rotate the inside pane and adjust the amount of light that came through. If you have two pairs of polarized sunglasses you can do the same.

Fred