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2020-07-15 -Land of the Free
Work Continues To Contain Fire On Navy Ship Thought Extinguished Overnight
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Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2020-07-15 05:44|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#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||   2020-07-15 06:20|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-07-15 06:21|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-07-15 07:12|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-07-15 08:37|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-07-15 09:18|| Front Page Top

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

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

#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||   2020-07-15 11:23|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-07-15 11:45|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-07-15 12:43|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-07-15 12:47|| Front Page Top

#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||   2020-07-15 12:59|| Front Page Top

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

#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||   2020-07-15 15:23|| Front Page Top

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

#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||   2020-07-15 16:16|| Front Page Top

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

#18 np
Posted by Frank G 2020-07-15 19:11||   2020-07-15 19:11|| Front Page Top

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