Ship fires cost the Navy dearly, but lessons still need learning
By Diana Stancy Correll
Apr 25, 06:40 PM
Fires aboard Navy ships, especially those in maintenance, have cost the service billions of dollars since 2008 — yet the service hasn’t consistently implemented a system to collect and analyze lessons learned from these disasters, according to a Government Accountability Office report.
The auditors determined that between 2008 and 2020, the Navy reported $4 billion in damages due to fires on ships undergoing maintenance.
Two Navy ships had to be scrapped.
In May 2012, a major fire aboard the attack submarine Miami while it was undergoing maintenance at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, caused more than $700 million in estimated damages to its forward compartment, the report notes. Rather than pay for repairs, the Navy was forced to decommission the boat 10 years ahead of schedule.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-navy/2023/04/25/ship-fires-cost-the-navy-dearly-but-lessons-still-need-learning/
