Saturday, March 25, 2017

Russian Shipyard Fires

One of the biggest challenges facing Russian shipyards seems to be keeping the ships from burning.  I was reminded of the fire that effectively destroyed the USS Miami in Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in May 2012 and decided to see what the Russian experience had been with shipyard fires.  An Internet search turned up the following catastrophic fires over the last several years.  I’m sure there were many additional, smaller fires that are not reported and this does not include fires at sea – this is only shipyard fires.

30-Dec-2011  K-84 Yekaterinburg (Delta IV SSBN)
16-Sep-2013  K-150 Tomsk (Oscar II SSGN)
17-Mar-2014  K-148 Krasnodar (Oscar II SSGN – decommissioning)
4-Nov-2014    Kerch (Kara class missile cruiser)
7-Apr-2015    K-266 Orel (Oscar II SSGN)
7-Dec-2015   RaisKorfou (Koni II frigate for Algerian Navy)
7-Jun-2016    Project 12700 Georgiy Kurbatov (Alexandrit-class minsweeper)
17-Jan-2017  Ossora (Trawler)

Yikes!  That’s a lot of lost or seriously damaged shipping, there.


Orel, Oscar II SSGN Burning



No point to this post, just a bit of interesting information.
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3 comments:

  1. AltandMainMarch 25, 2017 at 4:31 PM

    Safety first!

    I know there is a macho attitude at times of thinking safety is for the weak, but it is very, very important.

    Here though is a fun read:
    https://warisboring.com/workers-are-literally-dying-to-build-american-warships-59a5ddad4ab2

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  2. UnknownMarch 27, 2017 at 7:21 AM

    WOW !

    That's worse than India.

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  3. JFWMarch 27, 2017 at 7:22 AM

    "Here though is a fun read:
    https://warisboring.com/workers-are-literally-dying-to-build-american-warships-59a5ddad4ab2

    Alt, I respect and look forward to your comments.

    But I don't know if we agree on the definition of 'fun'. ;-)

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