Investigators found shipyard firefighters and Navy crews were complacent before a 2012 blaze crippled the $900 million USS Miami. Picture of the USS Miami (SSN-755) Commissioned in 1990, the USS Miami fell to a deliberate onboard fire in May of 2012, rendering her a complete loss to the USN and forcing her scrapping. The fire was so intense that it reached 1200 degrees and melted the crew’s shoe soles on the deck above the battery compartment.

Repairing the damage and completing the upgrades after the fire was estimated to cost more than … AP Photo/The Herald, Ionna Raptis Fury admitted to setting fire to the USS Miami… US Navy handout of the USS Miami submarine docked in Portsmouth (Reuters / Handout)The sub’s reactor in the rear part of the vessel was not affected and no radiation leak was detected, authorities insist.It was not operating at the time the fire started.The nuclear reactor “remains in a safe and stable condition, as it has been since this event occurred,” shipyard spokesman Capt. Her son, Casey Fury, is serving the 17-year prison sentence for lighting a fire that totaled the USS Miami at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on May 23, 2012. USS Miami (SSN-755) was a United States Navy Los Angeles-class attack submarine.She was the third vessel of the U.S. Navy to be named after Miami, Florida. The Navy said farewell Friday to the USS Miami, the nuclear-powered submarine whose service was cut short when a shipyard employee trying to get out of work set it on fire. The submarine was damaged in 2012 after worker Casey James Fury set a fire on board the sub. The USS Miami docked at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine in 2012, scheduled for a 20-month engineering overhaul and some regularly scheduled upgrades.
Seven people were injured after a fire broke out on the USS Miami, which was docked at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine. While at sea, a leak caused a battery explosion and fire. Submarine Pictures Nuclear Submarine Yellow Submarine Guy Stuff Warfare Miami Ships Military Fire Three men died and the Bonefish was abandoned at sea. While in the dock, a fire started on the sub, which spread to crew living quarters, command and control sections, and its torpedo rooms.
... Fire on Nuclear Sub USS Miami: Report . A fire that ended a submarine’s career early was the fire on the USS Bonefish in 24 April 1988. Miami was the forty-fourth Los Angeles-class (688) submarine and the fifth Improved Los Angeles-class (688I) submarine to be built and commissioned.The contract to build her was awarded to the Electric Boat division of General … The cause of the fire, which has now been extinguished, is …