Reply #947 on: December 12, 2019, 02:45:45 PM
latest report admits this was started by a welder's torch.
This is pretty common in a shipyard, doing welding in very confined spaces.
However, in the west, at least, the shipyard has a well trained fire fighting organization for just such events.
"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell." - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side." Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.