Heald: "Small Fire On Board Devonport-Based Frigate"

Herald: "Small Fire On Board Devonport-Based Frigate"

"The Royal Navy have confirmed a Devonport based warship suffered a small fire on New Year's Eve.

Firefighters were called to the blaze aboard the Type 23 frigate HMS Northumberland – which is currently at its base at Devonport dockyard – but the fire was out on arrival."


Small fire on board Devonport-based frigate | Plymouth Herald​

 

So FIREREP A are now sent to the Herald?!

 

Seems like a total non-story to fill the pages, still managed to get nuclear submarines mentioned for maximum scare effect. It's a well known fact that a small fire on a frigate can spread to a nearby nuclear boat and cause a sympathetic explosion with resulting mushroom cloud!!!

 

'Small fire' becomes 'blaze' in the very next line. Impressive work Herald.

 

You say that like it would be a bad thing!


Oh, and the fire should have been 'extinguished', not 'out' nice one and well done the 'Errald

 

I felt a twinge.

 

That's your age NJ, arthritis early warning alarm

 

Shush - that's supposed to be TS Atomic!

 

Most of us do when fire is involved.

 

Did a toaster set off the Minerva alarm again?

 

Biblical Conflagration would have sounded even better...:angryfire:

 

We saw daughter off on deployment in August, got phone call three days later telling us they had an electrical fire 15 minutes outside Portsmouth harbour . In the words of Ronnie Wood "Combustable fkrs"

 

Surely "RN Warship deploys and doesn't have a fire" would be a much more realistic headline ... no?