Iran's Largest Navy Ship Sinks In The Gulf Of Oman After Catching Fire

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: NPR, National Public Radio

Iran's Largest Navy Ship Sinks In The Gulf Of Oman After Catching Fire

June 2, 20214:33 AM ET
JACLYN DIAZ

Iran's largest navy vessel caught fire in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday and sank, according to the Tasnim News Agency.

A fire broke out on the IS Kharg while the ship was near Iran's port of Jask, southeast of Tehran, according to the Iranian navy. All crew members were able to flee the burning ship and were transferred to safety on the coast. The Kharg -- sometimes spelled "Khark" -- was one of navy's few ships capable of replenishing other ships at sea.

Military and civilian responders tried for 20 hours to extinguish the fire that gradually spread throughout the vessel, reported the Tasnim News Agency. Photos and videos shared online show the entire ship out at sea engulfed in thick, black smoke.

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Read more: https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1002367809/irans-largest-navy-ship-sinks-in-gulf-of-oman-after-catching-fire

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Hat tip, a news report I heard on some radio station I was listening to this morning

[MarineCombatEngineer]

1. The US Navy doesn't have to worry about sinking Iran's Navy,

Iran seems to do a good job themselves.

[marble falls]

2. Iranian sailors are still this sailor's brothers. Thank G*d none were killed. They fought hard to ..

... save their ship.

We sink a few of our own, too ...

https://www.oldsaltblog.com/2020/07/dockside-ship-fires-from-the-normandie-to-the-uss-bonhomme-richard/



For a third day, the USS Bonhomme Richard continues to burn at the dock, despite the best efforts of hundreds of Navy and civilian firefighters to quench the inferno. The casualty raises the question, are dockside fires on ships worse than fires at sea?

“As counter-intuitive as this sounds, I would much rather fight a fire at sea with a whole crew than fight it dockside,” said Bryan McGrath, a retired Navy commander told the San Diego Union-Tribune. “The ability to act quickly with a massive response and inhibit the spread is aided when you have all your people.”


The Bonhomme Richard was a whole lot more expensive than the Kharg!

[MarineCombatEngineer]

3. It was a joke.

Lighten up.

If any Iranian sailors had been injured or killed, then I wouldn't have made the joke, ok?

[marble falls]

4. And I joked back. I'm a sailor, ship fires are serious shit to salts. But I can joke about it ...

I'm sorry Bonhomme Richard is being dismantled as a total loss, I am sorry they couldn't save the Kharg, but I am glad as hell the crews all came through after tough fights.

What do jarheads do when the one suck every Marine knows is out there happens? They embrace the suck. Those swabbies embraced the suck.

It is funny to me, a tanker was the biggest ship in the Iranian Navy. But when the USN is in the house, big ships don't make sense. And the fast boats the Revolutionary Guard uses are more nuisance than threat.

[McKim]

5. Have to Ask...

I have to ask here why do we always have to have "enemies"? We could be selling Iran air conditioners, fridges, all kinds of things. Why isn't the world more cooperative? Who wins if we have "enemies"?

[samsingh]

9. Iran wants to destroy Israel. Hence its impossible to call them friends.

[IronLionZion]

14. The US needs enemies to justify all sorts of things

from defense spending to racism against perceived foreigners. When the cold war ended, Russians weren't a convenient foreign threat to scare people with anymore.

The Iran issue is influenced heavily by Israel and Saudi Arabia. SA is just as brutal and religiously extreme as Iran but somehow they're the ones we sell weapons and jets to. Even though many Saudi citizens have murdered American citizens over the years from 9/11 to the Pensacola air force base shooting.

[Jay25]

23. Yes. It's about allegiance and control.

[GulfCoast66]

16. Ginning up hatred of the US and Israel is the reason for existence for Iran

It’s current government, anyway.

The literally can’t make peace with either and continue to exist. Their people chafe under the religious oppression they live under. Remove the ‘threat’ of the US and their people would revolt.

[IronLionZion]

25. That last part sounds pretty good. nt

[Chainfire]

6. Fire is a larger threat to sailors than drowning.

Not every sailor is trained to tie knots, run a boiler, or fire a cannon, but every sailor is trained as a firefighter.

I am glad that the sailors escaped with their lives.

[SarcasticSatyr]

17. Very true, I was an Electrician's Mate ....

and the number 2 hoseman.

[Chainfire]

20. MM here. My GC job was damage control, but I too went to the fire-fighting school.

[sarisataka]

7. Strange geographic reference

Akin to saying the US port of San Diego, southwest of Salt Lake City...

[Akoto]

12. If you'd asked me where Jask was, I'd have no idea, but I know where Tehran is. n/t

[sarisataka]

13. Jask is on the Gulf of Oman

Which I doubt many people would know but it is just east of the Straight of Hormuz which is fairly widely know and a better reference than a city 800 miles from the ocean

[IronLionZion]

15. Sloppy reporting from NPR

a map would make more sense to show the location. They also include a pic of the ship in the Suez Canal for some reason, maybe to show the size.

[LiberalFighter]

8. Put the blame on Russia or

[GB_RN]

10. "Kharg" or "Khark"

Either way, it sounds like it should be in the Klingon fleet. 😂

[ChazInAz]

18. If I recall correcrly

A kharg is a type of dagger. (Don't have my reference books handy...I just moved and they're still packed.)

[GB_RN]

21. Interesting

Thanks for the language tidbit. I assume that’s Farsi and not Arabic?

But I still wouldn’t be surprised to see a Klingon Bird-of-Prey named that, either.

[Dial H For Hero]

11. A certain meme comes to mind:

[Deep State Witch]

19. Oh, Gee, Darn

Nice ship you have there. Be a shame if something happened to it!

[Maxheader]

22. Russia loses a lot of navy vessels due to fire...

it seems. Submarines...Wonder If iran is buying their ships...

[Gymbo]

24. I wonder

When Iran will blame Jewish space lasers?