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The first US carrier built from the keel up was USS Ranger CV-4. Deemed less capable, she nevertheless provided service in the Atlantic rather than the Pacific during WW2.


USS Ranger underway at sea, 1930s


Ranger (bottom), Lexington (middle), and Saratoga off Honolulu, 8 April 1936


Aircraft on Rangers deck during Operation Torch

 

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MH-1A Sturgis ( Mobile High Power Reactor Number 1A,) was a repurposed Liberty ship (SS Charles H Cugle) that became a floating nuclear power plant. Towed to its destination in Panama, its nuclear reactor provided 10 MW of electricity to The Panama Canal from 1968 to 1976.



SS Charles H. Cugle after conversion to nuclear barge Sturgis

SS Charles H. Cugle - Wikipedia

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