Originally Posted by
BEagle
Until the law was repealed in 1971, the crime of 'committing arson in HM dockyard' was the last offence in the UK for which the death penalty was still available.
If arson is proven to have been committed by that unnamed sailor, West Coast, what sentence could he/she face?
No idea Beags.
The USS Miami was a Nuke attack boat, a civilian worker intentionally started a fire on it as he wanted to go home early. Below is extracted from the wiki entry about the boat.
“civilian painter and sandblaster Casey J. Fury was indicted on two counts of arson after confessing to starting the fire. Fury admitted to setting it by igniting some rags on the top bunk of a bunk room. He claimed to have started it in order to get out of work early.[10][11][12][13] On 15 March 2013, he was sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $400 million in restitution.”