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Work Continues To Contain Fire On Navy Ship Thought Extinguished Overnight
2020-07-15
[ABC News} Defense officials say it's too soon to tell what the ship's future will be.

The U.S. Navy said that at least one fire continues to burn aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard, as progress is being made in extinguishing the fire that has raged in San Diego's harbor since Sunday morning.

A defense official told ABC News that as of Tuesday evening the fire was 80% contained.

Defense officials acknowledged that the fire has caused serious damage aboard the ship and that they face tough decisions about the ship's future, including whether the ship will be able to continue in service.
More at link, including a video.

Video mentioned that there are burn marks on the hull from the fire inside, which pretty much meant the hull is a total loss due to distempering of the hull steel.
Image fixed
Posted by:Seeking Cure For Ignorance

#18  np
Posted by: Frank G   2020-07-15 19:11  

#17  Thanks Frank for fixing the image!
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2020-07-15 18:50  

#16  Did I read yesterday that the fire actually started in a cargo space explosion not a welding accident? Interestingly seven ships went kablooie in Iran this morning. Lotta maritime oops going on worldwide it seems?

Tit for tat?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2020-07-15 16:16  

#15  Just trying not to foul the docks and harbor, which is important.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-07-15 16:06  

#14  Did I read yesterday that the fire actually started in a cargo space explosion not a welding accident? Interestingly seven ships went kablooie in Iran this morning. Lotta maritime oops going on worldwide it seems?
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2020-07-15 15:23  

#13  San Diego bay needs a reef.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-07-15 13:32  

#12  Marilyn, the ship had just come out of the yards, and most of the crew were ashore. Of the 160 people aboard, many were probably civilian workers.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2020-07-15 12:59  

#11  They going to dial up an old LHA from the mothball fleet? This sounds like they will need to strike the hull and salvage the ship. WTF is going on in the Navy, loss of basic seamanship abilities, including DC?
Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566   2020-07-15 12:47  

#10  /\ "Salvageable" as in it won't do a Admiral Kuznetsov right in the middle of a busy harbor...
Posted by: magpie   2020-07-15 12:43  

#9  ...Ship ‘Salvageable’

Yea, as in the ship just became a salvage ready for the breakers.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2020-07-15 11:45  

#8  Battle to save USS Bonhomme Richard enters fourth day: Hundreds of sailors continue to fight 'major fire' at the stern and bow of the 844-foot warship but officials say flames have moved away from its fuel tank easing fears of an explosion
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-07-15 11:23  

#7  Call it a modified SINKEX, learn from it, and do better next time.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-07-15 10:46  

#6  Navy Reports No Threat to Fuel Tanks on Bonhomme Richard, Ship ‘Salvageable’
Posted by: Frank G   2020-07-15 09:47  

#5  It will be blamed on the retrofit contract welder for not purging something with inert gas.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-07-15 09:18  

#4  ^ I'm not at all sure the Chinese are better off in terms of command structure. Be that as it may, we can be sure that not one admiral will lose his (or her) job over this catastrophe. In today's USN, the buck stops with Seaman Smith.
Posted by: Matt   2020-07-15 08:37  

#3  It's dead Jim

[Why am I getting the feeling that the Chinese have an edge in at least starting from scratch rather than being stuck with an albatross of an institutional upper rank structure that can't insure basics are done anymore?]
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-07-15 07:12  

#2  Forgot to add, the image was taken by the US Navy and as a result is in public domain.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2020-07-15 06:21  

#1  The image need fixing, it showed up fine in preview. Can one of the Mods fix this please?

Thanks.
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance   2020-07-15 06:20  

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