A "fridge too far?"
Doesn't the Navy carry Engineers then?
The world is full of cruise ships, most of them a lot bigger and with far bigger fridge plants that don't have to leg it to the nearest port because something so trivial as the fridge plant is rooted.
All this talk of fridges the size of bungalows is disingenious, regardless of how big the cold room is the actual fridge plant consists of relatively small components. Even if the complete compressor needed replacing, so what? In the real world the faulty component would be sent to next port of call, easier in this case though, must be terribly convenient having a big flat bit to land helicoptors on.
Personally reckon the Chief Thief's department dropped a major b*****k and simply didn't load the stuff in the first place....