Posted on 07/27/2020 6:36:06 AM PDT by texas booster
The Navy's top officer says that the fires that burned for four days on the Wasp class amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard last week left 11 of its 14 decks damaged and its island effectively gutted. Meanwhile, there has been a rash of other fire incidents aboard other U.S. Navy ships undergoing work in recent days. A shipyard in Virginia where Navy ships are repaired has resumed normal operations after halting work following a thankfully much less severe fire on Bonhomme Richard's sister ship, USS Kearsarge. Another fire broke out on the future USS John F. Kennedy, a Ford class aircraft carrier under construction at a separate Virginia yard, two days ago.
Defense News was first to report the new details about Bonhomme Richard's condition on July 22, 2020. This information came from a letter that Admiral Michael Gilday, the Chief of Naval Operations, had sent other flag officers and senior non-commissioned officers. The fire onboard the amphibious assault ship, exacerbated by multiple explosions, first broke out on July 12. The Navy announced that all known fires on the ship had been extinguished on July 16.
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"The island is nearly gutted, as are sections of some of the decks below; some perhaps, nearly encompassing the 844 ft length and 106 ft beam of the ship (NAVSEA's [Naval Sea System Command] detailed assessment is ongoing)," he continued. "Sections of the flight deck are warped/bulging."
This is one ship that may need replacing, rather than a billion $$ repair.
So, whose career is over?
A shipyard in Virginia where Navy ships are repaired has resumed normal operations after halting work following a thankfully much less severe fire on Bonhomme Richard’s sister ship, USS Kearsarge. Another fire broke out on the future USS John F. Kennedy, a Ford class aircraft carrier under construction at a separate Virginia yard, two days ago.
All these incidents involved carriers. In my view, there’s a pattern.
So who was speaking? A CPO or some officer who got his info from a CPO? Regardless it did a bunch of damage.
USS America (CVA-66) served its final mission as a live fire exercise target.
Sadly a similar fate ought to await the BHR
The hull is compromised, too..............
Without enough carriers we simply lose the Pacific. Qui bono?
Shouldn’t a warship have a very large degree of fire resistance?
The Oriskany is now a reef off Pensacola, FL................
Ya think!
“It was the contractor” No excuse, the Navy is supposed to be in charge.
This and other similar events are shameful. Some really big heads need to roll. If not that then show us the saboteurs.
This is simply inexcusable. Trump needs to address this and address us as to what he is doing about it.
Shameful and disgusting. The navy is seriously incompetent. There is ample evidence for that.
Didn’t a couple ships crash in the last few years as well?
She’s dead Jim.
WHAT has happened to the Navy?? They used to be competent.
It happened on a Sunday just like Pearl Harbor. Contractors working on Sunday?
During the Battle of Midway, damage & fire control teams aboard the USS Yorktown were so effective that fires from battle damage were quickly brought under control and even convinced the Japs that an additional carrier had entered the zone of action.
Many other WWII carriers were saved or survived to return home in similar manner.
That was nearly eighty years ago! What’s happened since then!!?
Unless the culture has truly changed ... they will penalize the contractor and protect their own.
Yes, and that deserves an investigation, as well. How much of this is caused by a military that, at the top, at least does not support Trump?
As I recall the fire equipment was out of commission due to repairs.
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