[John S Mosby]

Had heard that, and a lot else— that the ship was nearly continually “jinxed” or “albatrossed” with accidents and performance/maintenance issues, possibly shipyard union related. At least 5 episodes of dockyard arson, even in drydock.

[lentulusgracchus]

The JFK had a bad shipyard fire while still u/c..... Perhaps KGB had dialed her up for sabotage? The Reds once had big pull with a lot of unions.... The Electricians' Union was wholly Communist-run (Betty Friedan, according to one bio of her available online, came up as a prolefeed writer for their union newspaper) in the 50's.

[GreyHoundSailor]

Spent a frustrating year on a CG escort in their BG. CV-67 discovered something was wrong with their CIC surface search radar only after several underway periods. Tech Reps determined the connection between the radar and the display had a ten foot ‘air gap’ - the cable had been cut and not re-attached. Every week had a similar tale.