July 14, 20205 yr 16 hours ago, scottb613 said: No kidding - as a submariner - this story hit close to home. First - thanks for your service, Scott even though I'm from a different country, my sentiment remains the same for any who serve or served. Secondly I suppose one thing worse that a fire on a sub being built, is a fire on a deployed sub when it's 1500 feet down.. Mark Robinson Part-time Ferroequinologist Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon) I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation Sky Simulations MD-11 V2.2 Pilot. The best "lite" MD-11 money can buy (well, it's not freeware!)
July 14, 20205 yr Hi Mark, Had a tour of a Trafalgar in Groton CT once - great group of guys - - - thanks. Yeah - only major fire I can think of for a US submarine underway - since we adopted teardrop hulls is the USS Bonefish (diesel boat). (3) Dead - including the Captain. Regards, Scott
July 14, 20205 yr Pretty sure I helped fight a couple of "underway" engine room ship-board fires in the late 60's and very early 70's. One was an oil fire and the other a steam fire. It was long ago so the type of fires may be incorrect. Both were on tin cans. Edited July 14, 20205 yr by kttd Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700F 32.0 GB memory Windows 11 Home Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
July 14, 20205 yr Author Great close-up photography here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8521851/Powerful-pictures-capture-brave-work-firefighters-trying-save-USS-Bonhomme-Richard.html Brave women and men fighting this fire...
July 15, 20205 yr Some insight as to why the fire was so hard to fight. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/military/story/2020-07-13/bonhomme-richard-fire-future And another update here: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/34819/navy-says-at-least-one-fire-continues-to-burn-on-the-uss-bonhomme-richard Edited July 15, 20205 yr by goates
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