During a three-month voyage beset by storms and one shipboard fire, this statue was thought to have protected the ship.

Still, someone has to put out shipboard fires and inspect the waterfront.

The men struggling to contain the inferno were well trained in fighting shipboard fires, but they were working with both hands ned behind their backs.

The Navy said the fire today was the first major shipboard fire since the review, which was followed by special training and new operating orders.

He died in a shipboard fire on the Black Sea while en route to the Soviet Union in 1948, along with one of his daughters.

The day after formal commissioning, Port of Oakland was called into service to help combat a shipboard fire on the freighter Hawaiian Rancher.

Navy and Marine Corps fighters downed 3,047, while shipboard anti-aircraft fire felled 409, and B-29s destroyed 558 on the ground.

"Have you been caught in a shipboard fire?"

He moved with his mother to New Zealand in the early 1920s after his father, who was a merchant seaman, died in a shipboard fire.

"The problem could be one of a hundred things, from an electrical glitch to a shipboard fire," the prime minister said confidently.