Originally Posted by
etudiant
A warship in its home port, with all possible support systems, experiences an inextinguishable fire that lasts for several days.
That is not reassuring about the survivability of the USN's capital assets in any conflict. Do they build them stuffed with paper waste and other flammables?
It is incomprehensible to me that a maintenance period appears to have been a time of slacking off.
We all know that major structures undergoing maintenance are at elevated risk, Notre Dame being the prime example. Yet this seems to have been business as usual or worse.
Overall, a deeply depressing performance.
If you had read the entire thread you would have learned that a ship in shipyard maintenance is different than a ship at sea. Most of the hatches couldn't be closed due to cables running between compartments, a situation which wouldn't happen at sea. Additionally, and most important, the Halon fire extinguisher system was not operational due to it also undergoing maintenance, Again a situation which wouldn't have happened at sea. So to summarize if the ship had been at sea when the fire occurred all the hatches would have been closed to isolate the fire and the halon fire extinguishing system would have been activated to put the fire out.