Posted on 08/19/2012 11:14:52 AM PDT by moonshot925
PORTLAND, Maine — The U.S. Navy intends to repair a nuclear-powered attack submarine that was severely damaged by a fire while in dry dock and then return it to the fleet, Navy officials Friday.
While engineering assessments are ongoing, the Navy has decided to repair the USS Miami and is committed to doing so, Navy spokeswoman Lt. Courtney Hillson told The Associated Press.
“Our goal is to return the Miami to the fleet because this makes sense operationally and fiscally,” Hillson said.
There had been lingering questions over whether it would make financial sense to repair the 22-year-old submarine, which is based in Groton, Conn. Early estimates put the damage at $400 million.
A former shipyard worker from Portsmouth, N.H., is charged with setting the fire on May 23 while the sub was in dry dock at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, for a 20-month overhaul.
The fire got out of control, and the submarine’s steel hull trapped heat, causing superheated smoke and a stubborn fire that took more than 100 firefighters about 12 hours to extinguish.
The fire caused heavy damage to forward compartments including living quarters, a command and control center and the torpedo room but did not reach the back of the submarine, where the nuclear propulsion components are located. Two crew members, three shipyard firefighters and two civilian firefighters were hurt.
The Navy previously requested the reallocation of $220 million for unfunded ship repairs for the current fiscal year, with the understanding that some of it would go to the USS Miami. Additional money would be required to complete the repairs to the Los Angeles-class submarine, officials said.
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The navy should send the bill to the union of the goon that started the fire to get off work early.
Hope they ask for volunteers from the crew - or staff it from the Pentagon.
Makes you wonder where she would stand if the repairs were going to be made in, say, Mississippi?
I know the guy in charge of fire safety at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, and he tells me that as a result of this incident they’re doing some major inspections fleet wide. He’s busy as a bee these days with that added workload.
I know the guy in charge of fire safety at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, and he tells me that as a result of this incident they’re doing some major inspections fleet wide. He’s busy as a bee these days with that added workload.
Fry the perp.
We couldn’t kill morons fast enough.
I would like to know more about this worker who started the fire. Was it accidental, or purposely set? If it was purposely set, was his complexion ‘swarthy’?
You can read about him HERE.
Wow! Casey looks just like that ADHD psychopath “Jessie” on “Breaking Bad”!
Its ironic that one man wanting to get off his shift early now has created hundreds of job openings.
or look at the captain of the Concordia who has created hundreds of jobs or more to salvage the wreck he caused.
So when Obama is gone a million new jobs may be created to clean up his putrefied stink of an ambitious campaign of “change” to socialism.
I call them McMorons!
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