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Even for the US defence budget I wonder is this too much damage for her to be economically viable for repair? I mean that level of heat must have weakened the steel all over the place.
For a ship of her age, with a full upper deck rebuild required, as well as a total rewiring, better off just scrap her now and wait for the next America class to replace her.
For now, everything hangs on implementation of the CoDF report.
Think not, the main deck was still covered in construction containers and equipment. Odds are it was hot work that went wrong.
Think the Admiral has said there wasn't any current active work (given it was 8.30am on a Sunday I'd be surprised), could it have been something from the day before that wasn't watched? Given they've admitted that the space had plenty of construction related crap in it (Drywall, rags, oil etc) it had plenty of material as soon as it caught. Reports that they are still fighting two fires, one in the bow, one stern, but that they've got to the engineering sections and there's no fire there.
Sometimes it just caused by something stupid and simple that in hindsight was preventable, Cutty Sark was caused by a vacuum cleaner that was left on over the weekend, Windsor Castle by a spotlight left next to a curtain.
It was the year of fire...the year of destruction...the year we took back what was ours.
It was the year of rebirth...the year of great sadness...the year of pain...and the year of joy.
It was a new age...It was the end of history.
It was the year everything changed.
Fires still burning and they had to pull the fire fighting teams off last night as she reverted from her starboard list to a strong Port list onto the Pier Side, the teams returned this morning but her list is pretty damn clear in some photo's now. Also some more photo's of the interior after the last couple of days:
And the Navy is reporting that all fires are out, interesting angle from the back clearly shows the list, the well deck entrance was well above water yesterday now almost in the water:
meh pump all that water on top of fire it has to go somewhere .... bilge pump wiring is probably all burned out so I reckon now the fires out they can pump it all out ...
Lots of really interesting articles circulating in the immediate aftermath of the #USSBonhommeRichard fire. I’ve gathered a couple here and added some observations.
1?No one died. This is remarkable and could have been very different.
. US Navy investigates massive four-day USS Bonhomme blaze
The US Navy has launched an investigation into a massive blaze aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard that took four days to put out.
The fire aboard the US aircraft carrier injured at least 40 sailors and 23 civilians.
It is not yet known whether the ship can survive the damage caused by the fire that broke out on 12 July in San Diego, where the Bonhomme is docked.
The Navy is investigating the cause of the fire and emergency preparedness.
On Friday, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Mike Gilday will travel to San Diego to inspect the ship amid the probe. "This is a very, very serious incident that I think will force the Navy to stand back and reevaluate itself," Adm Gilday told Defense News.
The Navy must be prepared to issue an honest assessment of the incident and do something about it, he said. A previous internal study in 2012 had found that the US Navy had been accepting higher and higher fire risks in its operations.
"Could there be another Bonhomme Richard waiting to happen?" he asked "I'm not waiting for 'number two' to decide we have a trend here."
The USS Bonhomme Richard, an amphibious assault ship, was commissioned in 1998 and is among the few US warships from which an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter can take off.
Repair would likely take months and hundreds of millions of dollars, but a new ship could cost as much as $4bn, according to one expert estimate.
A fire was first reported on board the 40,000-ton ship while in port at Naval Base San Diego on Sunday morning, local time.
The Navy helicopters carried more than 1,500 water bucket drops and tug boats sprayed water on the vessel's side to cool it down in attempt to contain the blaze, US media reported. The fire sent plumes of black smoke billowing into the air and the ravaged ship's melted aluminium superstructure bent at a 45-degree angle as flames engulfed the ship.
Sixty-three personnel suffered injuries, namely heat exhaustion and smoke inhalation while battling the blaze. None of the injuries are life-threatening, the Navy said.
'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
He died that's all. It was his unlucky night. http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
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