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Stephen Carmel

Stephen Carmel

Administrator of the United States Maritime Administration

Aug 14, 2026

speaker_3HOST
1:00
Okay.
1:01
And I have to go there because at the time, the comb is around and I couldn't get into the queue.
1:09
So I have to go all the way to Cambridge.
1:12
They took kilos, but the NF2 they took out had turned to cancer.
1:19
And then I was in there for a moment.
1:22
And then I came back down and I was in for physio on my legs.
1:28
I was at the Queen's West of Wales for six weeks.
speaker_3HOST
4:11
It can make you feel...
8:00
So pivoting back, sir, is the Clipper story happening again here? And what does history tell us about what we can actually reverse in time or not?
8:09
You're exactly right.
8:10
And that is kind of where I was going with Admiral Pogo's question.
8:16
We have missed the boat several times.
8:17
Actually, coming back to steam, the very first Savannah was the steamship Savannah, launched in, I believe, 1818, 1818 or 1819.
8:29
Yes.
8:30
Another example of the US being ahead of its time in terms of putting together a system She was the first ship to have a steam plant on her to make a transatlantic voyage.

7 MINS LATER

15:31
stressed.

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