I hope the crew gets through all of this and the boat gets back on patrol.
The Miami was only in for minor up keep repairs ... now she will be the a few more months if not years. Like the San Francisco they might make her into a training boat out of Groton.
Like Osmium Steele said it's probably a welding spark out of control. I had to stand a lot of fire watches on the Salmon back in 64 in Mare Island naval shipyard gouing through a fram job.
I was stuck in the forwrd battery compartment that was just suppose to hold batteries all crunched over having to watch some welder make the battery holders. It was so tight in there that he had to slap me when he spotted a fire.
Another horrible thought is that it was supper time and the galley was on shore power and that could become a problem.
We had a barge for cooking food on back in the 60's not sure about Kittery, Maine though. I didn't even know Kittery had anything to do with subs to tell your the truth.
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