If that ship caught on fire and they had not contained it, where would we be?
Like a city, the ship has a fire and emergency response capability and its own security organization, including security forces, legal services, brig and a process by which the captain enforces good order and discipline.
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Helicopters hovered overhead, possibly delivering more supplies to the 3, 143 passengers and 1, 086 crew members trapped on the ship since the fire Sunday off the coast of Mexico left the vessel listing to the side and drifting in Gulf of Mexico currents.
Some on the ship reported sewage sloshing around in hallways, flooded rooms and trouble getting enough to eat after a fire in the ship's engine room Sunday left it drifting in the Gulf of Mexico.
The ship's automatic fire extinguishing system kicked in and soon contained the blaze, and no injuries were reported.
Though the investigation into the cause of the fire in one of the ship's two engine rooms is just beginning, Cuty said it appears that the fire suppression worked as it was designed to do.
An engine-room fire paralyzed the ship early Sunday, leaving it adrift in the Gulf of Mexico.
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On 16 April, 1947, a fire on a ship loaded with ammonium nitrate set off a series of explosions in the port of Texas City, and fires that burned for days.
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Some passengers report sewage sloshing around in hallways, flooded rooms and trouble getting enough to eat after a fire in the ship's engine room Sunday left it drifting in the Gulf of Mexico.
Before I even received my computer, I was informed that the lithium ion battery it was supposed to ship with were catching on fire (you heard right, catching on fire), and so were going to be replaced with an inferior nickel metal hydride one.
His ship was twice hit by enemy fire and Mr Stassen returned a bemedalled hero to the political stage.
The blast ignited a fire on a second ship docked in Galveston Bay that was also loaded with ammonium nitrate.
An engine room fire left the cruise ship crippled and adrift in the Gulf of Mexico with more than 4, 200 people aboard.
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In 1940, the troop ship Lancastria was sunk by enemy fire after having taken on board British troops who were evacuating from France.
But the fire knocked out the ship's propulsion system and left the vessel slowly drifting in the Gulf until a second tug boat arrived Tuesday.
The fire still left the ship with 3, 143 passengers and 1, 086 crew members without propulsion, drifting about 140 miles off the Mexican coast, the cruise line said.
But the fire knocked out the ship's propulsion system and left the vessel slowly drifting in the Gulf until a second tugboat arrived Tuesday, joining one that had come earlier.
The fire still left the ship with 3, 143 passengers and 1, 086 crew members without propulsion, drifting about 140 miles off the Mexican coast, the cruise line said in a statement.
In the biggest high-profile incident in the U.S. in recent years, more than 3, 000 passengers aboard the Carnival Splendor were towed to shore in 2010 by a Mexican tugboat after an engine-room fire cut off the ship's electricity.
In 2010, the Carnival's cruise ship Splendor lost power after an engine room fire, leaving it drifting off the Pacific coast of Mexico.
In March 2012, a Royal Caribbean-owned cruise ship was forced to cancel a trip after fire broke out a day after it left Manila, the Philippines, for Malaysia.
Once the masts, coach-housing, sails and rigging are back in place, the Cutty Sark will once again look like the majestic ship it was before rust, age and fire took their toll.
In February this year, passengers were forced to spend nearly five days in the Gulf of Mexico aboard a stranded ship operated by Royal Caribbean rival Carnival after the ship was disabled by an engine-room fire.
The Triumph has been at BAE Shipyard in the Port of Mobile since an engine fire in February left the cruise ship crippled and adrift in the Gulf of Mexico with more than 4, 200 people aboard.
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Parts of it are still on fire seventeen weeks later, when our ship, Sephora, arrives on the scene.
Much of the ship's electrical power went down in the fire, causing widespread malfunctions, including taking out sanitary systems.
Carnival has cancelled more than a dozen planned voyages aboard the Triumph, while acknowledging that the crippled ship had other mechanical problems in the weeks before the fire.
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