I am surprized that we was allowed to take a cigarette lighter on board, especially on a submarine being overhauled. Does this sound right to you?
I was on a sub and we were in the yards for overhaul twice. I don’t recall any restrictions of that nature on the yardbirds. Mind you that was more than 30 years ago and I’m sure some things have changed.
Not a sub guy, but it doesn’t seem like an issue to me. The only time we banned carrying lighters on surface ships was when we were moving ammo and even that wasn’t really unnecessary with modern ammo. It wasn’t like we were moving bags of black powder.
Re: I am surprized that he was allowed to take a cigarette lighter on board, especially on a submarine being overhauled. Does this sound right to you?
Cigarette lighters were not allowed on the Hindenburg so why allowed on a sub under maintenance??