although no pictures exist there is supposed to be a model of the proposed RFA replenishment ship with nuclear power in the massive Greenwich collection. I have never been able to get to see this model, but based on some small drawings of mercantile UK reactor designs in an old Airfix magazine...
20th century
21st century
admiralty research department
atomic energy authority industrial group
atomicships
cold war
great britain
nuclear powered vessels
nuclear royal fleet auxiliary
post-cold war
royal navy
swan hunter
united kingdom
united kingdom atomic energy authority
yarrow shipbuilders limited
yarrow-admiralty research department
Having been home ported at Port Hueneme, California since 30 November 1948, Norton Sound stood out to sea in June of 1962 bound for Norfolk, Virginia and ultimately to Baltimore, Maryland. She arrived at Norfolk, Virginia and was decommissioned on 10 August 1962, and was later towed to Baltimore...
anti-air warfare
area air defence
atomicships
cold war
cruiser
destroyer
dlgn
missile frigate
naval reactor
nuclear battlefield
nuclear powered vessels
sam
surface-to-air missile
tactical nuke
typhon
united states
united states navy
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