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Re:Flying Aircraft Carriers (2019) by Retric on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @07:01PM (#40070987)
Regular aircraft carriers where extremely flammable and filled with explosives.

Originally they had wooden decks, boatloads of fuel, and no meaningful armor. Nowadays their made with ~70,000 tons of steel, and fire is still a major concern.

Re:Flying Aircraft Carriers (2019) by metabagel on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @07:52PM (#40071412)
Hence why damage control was (and still is) so important, which the American Navy was very good at.
Re:Flying Aircraft Carriers (2019) by adolph on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @09:21PM (#40072012)
While not technically an aircraft carrier but capable of carrying, launching and landing aircraft, the example of USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) comes to mind:

On 12 July 2020, a fire started on a lower vehicle-storage deck while the ship was undergoing maintenance at Naval Base San Diego. It took four days for firefighters to extinguish the fire, which injured at least 63 sailors and civilians and severely damaged the ship. After a lengthy investigation into the cause of the fire, a sailor was charged with arson but was acquitted at trial. Repairs to the ship were estimated to take up to seven years and cost up to $3.2 billion, so the ship was decommissioned on 15 April 2021 and sold for scrap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bonhomme_Richard_(LHD-6)