[daniel1212]

My now-deceased dad was an expert welder at Beth steel for 35 years, then Porstmouth, and being short (5’1’’) he was a favorite to work in subs. Of course you always had to have a fire watch, but on gov. ships, which took about 3 times as long to repair due to the regs,

And sometimes a piece of something could smolder or do a small burn and which small cases my dad was good at quickly blowing or smothering it out rather than using the fire extinguisher, for if a fire extinguisher was used even for a second then a lengthy investigation took place.

[cva66snipe]

Yea Sub Yards were real strict and for good reason. Sub fires are much harder to contend with. Also on the Nukes there that aspect of reporting such events as well.

We had one major fire when I was on the ship. We were in the yards for three months in 1978 & shipmate and myself happened to discover it. It was a stioreroom fire. Heat transfer went up three decks real fast. It was a long night. I wasn't on duty but geared up to help do compartment checks.