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MARAD PD-133 "Pacer" Austere Cargo Ship
In 1966, the Maritime Administration began design work on a general purpose cargo-liner to be built in large enough numbers to be useful in national emergencies and replace war-era vessels serving in non-subsidized trade, with the idea that they be designed for minimum cost. As specified in a...- RipSteakface
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- cold war late 1960s maritime administration
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PD-214 Security Class Maritime Administration conceptual mobilisation ship 1974-1981
Source: p474-p475, US Amphibious Ships and Craft, Norman Friedman The Center of Naval Analyses (CNA) compared a number of different ship designs for the role of the Maritime Prepositioning Squadron (MPS). One of these was the PD-214 "Security Class" (C8-M-MA134), a conceptual mobilisation ship...- A Tentative Fleet Plan
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- cold war early 1980s late 1970s maritime administration united states
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American Export Isbrandtsen Lines nuclear-powered container ships project (1964-68)
This was a project intended to provide three (correction, four) atomic powered high speed container ships for use on Essential Foreign Trade Route No. 12, between the U.S. Atlantic Coast and the Far East. The ships would have used the AEC Maritime Reactor, a clean sheet gas-cooled reactor design...- Grey Havoc
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- 1950s 33000-ton tanker aec american export isbrandtsen line atoms for peace contract ma-1893 high speed container ships isbrandtsen co. maritime administration u.s. congress
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