Portable Standpipe Improves Navy Dockside Fire Protection
—photograph— U. 8. Navy
FIRE HAZARDS aboard ships are serious enough to challenge the best trained and equipped damage crews. But the hazards multiply in extent and severity when time comes for pierside modification, overhaul, repair or construction. This, notwithstanding the fact that at dockside, land fire fighting forces are usually available to supplement ships’ fire crews. Therefore, when Chief Homer C. Lovell, U. S. Naval Station, San Diego, Calif., came up with an idea which conceivably could mitigate such disasters, he was given the green light by Navy top brass. What resulted is known technically on the patent papers as the Modified Portable Wet Standpipe for Fire Fighting Aboard Ship.
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