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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...
  2. A Tentative Fleet Plan

    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...
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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...
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    • 1950s 33000-ton tanker aec american export isbrandtsen line atomic energy commission atomic ships atoms for peace cold war contract ma-1893 high speed container ships isbrandtsen co. maritime administration naval reactor nuclear powered vessels u.s. congress united states vietnam war
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    Project America ships

    Link: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/project-america.htm Interesting idea. Started off as cruise ships, and morphed into naval command ships.
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    • 1990s accommodation hulk barracks ship command ship department of defense department of transportation early 2000s ingalls shipbuilding litton ingalls maritech maritime administration national shipbuilding research program northrop grumman post-cold war u.s. navy united states united states navy us navy us-flag ship pilot project war on terror
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