USS South Dakota (BB-57)
Entered the service from Pennsylvania.
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S1/C Lewis Elson Payner Jr. was assigned to the battleship USS South Dakota on 10 August 1943 and died of his injuries sustained during an ammunition resupply accident in the South Pacific. Below are the accounts from the ships' logs.
At 1528 BB57 went alongside the port side of the USS Wrangell to rearm. At 1558 a tank of sixteen-inch- high-capacity powder exploded as it was being passed into magazine A 419 M. The explosion and fires resulting there from set off three other tanks of sixteen-inch-high-capacity powder inside the magazine. The USS Wrangell and the South Dakota jointly let go all lines and cleared each other as rapidly as possible. The South Dakota maneuvered clean of the other ships in the formation, but remained inside the screen. As soon as the report of a fire in the magazines, orders were given to flood the magazine. At 1606, orders were given to flood all of turret number two's lower magazines when fires or high temperatures were reported in magazines A 416 M, A 417 M, and A 418 M. At 1613 the lower handling room of turret number two was flooded. Superb damage control measures and firefighting quickly brought the fire under control and narrowly averted a major disaster. All fires were reported out at 1634.
Contributor: Chris Tucker (50319164)
Entered the service from Pennsylvania.
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S1/C Lewis Elson Payner Jr. was assigned to the battleship USS South Dakota on 10 August 1943 and died of his injuries sustained during an ammunition resupply accident in the South Pacific. Below are the accounts from the ships' logs.
At 1528 BB57 went alongside the port side of the USS Wrangell to rearm. At 1558 a tank of sixteen-inch- high-capacity powder exploded as it was being passed into magazine A 419 M. The explosion and fires resulting there from set off three other tanks of sixteen-inch-high-capacity powder inside the magazine. The USS Wrangell and the South Dakota jointly let go all lines and cleared each other as rapidly as possible. The South Dakota maneuvered clean of the other ships in the formation, but remained inside the screen. As soon as the report of a fire in the magazines, orders were given to flood the magazine. At 1606, orders were given to flood all of turret number two's lower magazines when fires or high temperatures were reported in magazines A 416 M, A 417 M, and A 418 M. At 1613 the lower handling room of turret number two was flooded. Superb damage control measures and firefighting quickly brought the fire under control and narrowly averted a major disaster. All fires were reported out at 1634.
Contributor: Chris Tucker (50319164)
USS South Dakota (BB-57)
Entered the service from Pennsylvania.
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S1/C Lewis Elson Payner Jr. was assigned to the battleship USS South Dakota on 10 August 1943 and died of his injuries sustained during an ammunition resupply accident in the South Pacific. Below are the accounts from the ships' logs.
At 1528 BB57 went alongside the port side of the USS Wrangell to rearm. At 1558 a tank of sixteen-inch- high-capacity powder exploded as it was being passed into magazine A 419 M. The explosion and fires resulting there from set off three other tanks of sixteen-inch-high-capacity powder inside the magazine. The USS Wrangell and the South Dakota jointly let go all lines and cleared each other as rapidly as possible. The South Dakota maneuvered clean of the other ships in the formation, but remained inside the screen. As soon as the report of a fire in the magazines, orders were given to flood the magazine. At 1606, orders were given to flood all of turret number two's lower magazines when fires or high temperatures were reported in magazines A 416 M, A 417 M, and A 418 M. At 1613 the lower handling room of turret number two was flooded. Superb damage control measures and firefighting quickly brought the fire under control and narrowly averted a major disaster. All fires were reported out at 1634.
Contributor: Chris Tucker (50319164)
Entered the service from Pennsylvania.
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S1/C Lewis Elson Payner Jr. was assigned to the battleship USS South Dakota on 10 August 1943 and died of his injuries sustained during an ammunition resupply accident in the South Pacific. Below are the accounts from the ships' logs.
At 1528 BB57 went alongside the port side of the USS Wrangell to rearm. At 1558 a tank of sixteen-inch- high-capacity powder exploded as it was being passed into magazine A 419 M. The explosion and fires resulting there from set off three other tanks of sixteen-inch-high-capacity powder inside the magazine. The USS Wrangell and the South Dakota jointly let go all lines and cleared each other as rapidly as possible. The South Dakota maneuvered clean of the other ships in the formation, but remained inside the screen. As soon as the report of a fire in the magazines, orders were given to flood the magazine. At 1606, orders were given to flood all of turret number two's lower magazines when fires or high temperatures were reported in magazines A 416 M, A 417 M, and A 418 M. At 1613 the lower handling room of turret number two was flooded. Superb damage control measures and firefighting quickly brought the fire under control and narrowly averted a major disaster. All fires were reported out at 1634.
Contributor: Chris Tucker (50319164)
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