Accidental fire is still the leading likely cause. This does happen - in the last few years, the Russians lost a carrier to shipyard fire and the Chinese lost one of their amphibious assault ships to a shipyard fire (though both navies are still undecided if they will repair or simply scrap their ships.) Last year the Brits almost lost their new Queen Elizabeth carrier when a pipe broke on a shakedown run and the sea started coming in.
Also, Ingalls does still offer the Wasp class amphibious assault carrier to build for foreign nations so we could buy a replacement, or we could buy one of the two successor classes based on the Wasp. On May 20, we just ordered a new America-class, the LHA-9.
it tilting because of all of the water put on the fire..
Firefighters were able to board the ship, which had begun to tilt due to excessive water used to contain the fire, after about an hour pierside.
Write this one off and take the entire crew and re-assign them as a precomm crew for the new LHA to be completed at a later date.
I was on the USS Shreveport (LPD-12) from 93-94. We had the unique pleasure of both fighting a Class B fire while pulling away from the pier, and ramming The USS Fairfax County (LST-1193) during the same series of exercises.
Maybe... but your examples suggest the question: how is it possible that all three navies suddenly "forgot" how to prevent "accidental" fires on ships?
And how is it they suddenly can't put out such fires?
And how is it that navy ships (navy ships!!) are designed to burn uncontrollably, with impossible to extinguish fires?
I don't get it.
There's way too many coincidences to make sense.
Spktyr: "On May 20, we just ordered a new America-class, the LHA-9."
Are those ships also designed to burn uncontrollably?