Posted on 11/30/2020 2:13:44 PM PST by Lower Deck
The Navy will scrap the USS Bonhomme Richard after a fire burned aboard the amphibious assault ship for nearly five days in July and rendered it unsalvageable, the service announced Monday.
After “thorough consideration,” the Navy has decided to decommission the ship “due to the extensive damage” from the blaze, the service said in a statement.
“We did not come to this decision lightly,” Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite said in the release. “Following an extensive material assessment in which various courses of action were considered and evaluated, we came to the conclusion that it is not fiscally responsible to restore her.”
The Navy estimated that repairing the ship could cost more than $3 billion and take between five and seven years, a price tag and timeline that service leaders did not find feasible.
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For your interest.
I suspected as much.
Did they ever discover the cause?
They’ll probably build a new one instead. And salvage parts from the old ship as much as possible.
Use it as a training ship, for fire fighting - as one example.
Awww! That was a purdy ship.
Reminded me of mine, the Peleliu.
There were reports of possible arson.
Sabotage - my bet.
The way things are going, I thought that would be the ship
the Biden administration would keep, and get rid of all the
others.
China scratched one US Flattop — “Just an accident—Like at Russian Carrier.
The article says it's still under investigation.
The replacement ship will probably have a new name.
The same name might be bad luck.
“The same name might be bad luck.”
I think that’s very superstitious.
It's likely too dangerous even for this. The structural integrity can't be accurately determined. You could wind up with trainees getting hurt or worse if something collapsed.
Did they ever release the name of the arsonist who was targeted in the investigation?
Antifa? BLM? MSNBC?
Over a decade ago, I boarded one of its Wasp class sister ships during Fleet Week. It was an impressive hunk of metal, to say the least. Best of all, the Osprey was embarked at the time. I am annoyed that the people responsible haven’t been brought to book or at least charged with criminal negligence.
I had no idea that ship was a carrier. Wow.
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