{"id":23531,"date":"2021-07-21T17:53:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T17:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/07\/21\/us-pacific-fleet-admirals-barge-went-to-the-scrapyard-following-2019-fire\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:26:35","slug":"us-pacific-fleet-admirals-barge-went-to-the-scrapyard-following-2019-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2021\/07\/21\/us-pacific-fleet-admirals-barge-went-to-the-scrapyard-following-2019-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Pacific Fleet admiral\u2019s barge went to the scrapyard following 2019 fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While authorities have been unable to determine precisely what caused a fire to break out on the U.S. Pacific Fleet admiral\u2019s barge in May 2019, sending the vessel to the scrapyard, investigators have concluded that the fire likely started in the vessel\u2019s electrical system near the pilot house, command officials confirmed this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fire broke out early on May 19, 2019, while the vessel was moored at the Pacific Fleet boathouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to PACFLEET spokesman Cmdr. Myers Vasquez, the fire is believed to have started around electrical panel connectors and the starboard battery charging conductors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The damage to the barge, which was once a so-called \u201ccrash boat\u201d refashioned into a vessel for high-level visits and command ceremonies, was deemed unrepairable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 63-foot-barge was built in 1957 and repurposed from a crash boat to the admiral\u2019s barge in 1965, according to USCrashBoats.org<\/a>, a site that chronicles the history of crash boats in the U.S. military.<\/p>\n\n\n\t