SS Charles H. Cugle [SEP] manufacturer
SS Charles H. Cugle
SS "Charles H. Cugle" was a Type Z-EC2-S-C5 Liberty ship built by J.A. Jones Construction of Panama City, Florida, launched on 13 August 1945. It was ordered by the War Shipping Administration under Maritime Commission Contract number 3145.
As part of the Army Nuclear Power Program the ship was transferred to the U.S. Army in March 1963, and fitted with a pressurized water reactor, fuelled by used low enriched uranium, designed by Martin Marietta, becoming the world's first floating
portions of the vessel will be cut up and sold for scrap value.
External links.
- armed-guard.com Charles H. Cugle Photo.
- usmm.org American Merchant Marine at War, Liberty Ships built by the United States Maritime Commission in World War II
- "Floating Nuclear Power Stations" WordPress, spartansaving.com, 18 October 2011
- Ron Carlson, Re: SS Charles H. Cugle blueprints and stuff, USN WW2 Vets, boardhost.com, 30 January 2010.
- Ernest F. Imhoff Where have all the Victory ships gone