Coast Guard’s last heavy icebreaker caught on fire during South Pole mission

Shipboard fires are no joke, your home is on fire and you have no where to go.

I was on the ice for the Star's first cruise. They had a number of yardbirds on board. They got hung up on the ice because the shaft journals were under designed, hence could only hold up to 60% power. I used explosives to free them up. That they continued to have leaks around the shaft doesn't surprise me as it's a reflection of overworked seals. Adding more supports helped, but there was only so much you could do. The incinerator room would have likely been an "add-on" in later years. Like other add-ons, everything is a compromise, hence higher likelihood of a problem. Back in the day, garbage was still dumped over the fantail.

You know, I've wondered about that, o think it !ist he Siberia, perhaps, that shapes their concentration on that, though one would think Alaska might induce a similar concentration here...I'd heard about a possibly new icebreaker USCG project at a vet group I go to sometimes, I'll try to find stuff on it....