{"id":48874,"date":"2022-10-08T02:31:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T00:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=48874"},"modified":"2023-10-08T00:07:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T22:07:29","slug":"fire-in-the-frigate-santa-maria-of-the-spanish-navy-at-naval-station-rota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/08\/fire-in-the-frigate-santa-maria-of-the-spanish-navy-at-naval-station-rota\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire in the frigate 'Santa Mar\u00eda' of the Spanish Navy at Naval Station Rota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday, at 9:00 p.m. CET, a fire broke out aboard the F-81 \"Santa Mar\u00eda\" frigate, moored at the Rota Naval Base.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/06\/the-military-purchases-that-spain-plans-mpa-mlrs-and-a-substitute-for-the-ef-18-and-harrier-ii\/\">The military purchases that Spain plans: MPA, MLRS and a substitute for the EF-18 and Harrier II<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/06\/impressive-spanish-naval-review-500-years-after-the-first-circumnavigation-of-the-world\/\">Impressive Spanish naval review 500 years after the first circumnavigation of the world<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>According to reports of <a href=\"https:\/\/foronaval.com\/2022\/10\/08\/la-fragata-santa-maria-f-81-sufre-un-incendio-en-la-base-naval-de-rota\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Foro Naval<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/rotaaldia.com\/art\/36675\/incendio-en-la-fragata-santa-maria-en-la-base-naval-de-rota\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rota al d\u00eda<\/a>, <strong>the fire started in one of the ship's two aircraft hangars.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52412206438_31a5f904c1_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The frigate \"Santa Mar\u00eda\" seen from the bow at the time of the fire (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/foronaval.com\/2022\/10\/08\/la-fragata-santa-maria-f-81-sufre-un-incendio-en-la-base-naval-de-rota\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Armada \/ Foro Naval<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>Fortunately, at the time of the fire neither of the two hangars was occupied by any helicopter. <strong>The causes of the fire, which would have been extinguished around 11:45 p.m., are unknown at the moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"margin:20px 0 20px 0;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Spanish Navy Santa Maria class frigate has caught fire tonight while docked in Rota <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0aOBueiH1i\">pic.twitter.com\/0aOBueiH1i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Intel Air &amp; Sea (@air_intel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/air_intel\/status\/1578491329100754944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Firefighting teams from <strong>the Spanish Navy and the US Navy have collaborated in the extinction work<\/strong>. According to Foro Naval, it seems that at the moment <strong>there are no injuries<\/strong>. The fire takes place a few weeks before the scheduled date for this frigate to set sail from Rota to join Operation Atalanta, in the waters of the Indian Ocean near the Horn of Africa. <strong>The departure of the frigate was scheduled for this Sunday, October 9<\/strong>, but it is almost certain that it will have to be postponed due to the damage caused by the fire.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52411693096_6714d15aab_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The flight deck of the frigate \"Santa Mar\u00eda\" at the time of the fire (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/foronaval.com\/2022\/10\/08\/la-fragata-santa-maria-f-81-sufre-un-incendio-en-la-base-naval-de-rota\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Armada \/ Foro Naval<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>At the moment, <strong>the Navy is still pending to assess the damage<\/strong> that this ship could have suffered. You can follow here any news that arises around this event.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4217\/34922431401_774b5316d1_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The frigate \"Santa Mar\u00eda\" during the naval parade held on June 2, 2017 in the Pontevedra Estuary, on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Royal Company of Midshipmen (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/elentir\/34922431401\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Contando Estrelas<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p><strong>The frigate \"Santa Mar\u00eda\" is the oldest of the Spanish Navy frigates.<\/strong> She was launched on November 21, 1984 and was the first of the current six Spanish Navy frigates belonging to the Santa Maria class, based on the American Oliver Hazard Perry class frigates. <strong>Her first mission abroad took place in 1990 during the Gulf War<\/strong>, when she was sent to the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Main photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/foronaval.com\/2022\/10\/08\/la-fragata-santa-maria-f-81-sufre-un-incendio-en-la-base-naval-de-rota\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Armada \/ Foro Naval<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday, at 9:00 p.m. CET, a fire broke out aboard the F-81 \u00abSanta Mar\u00eda\u00bb frigate, moored at the Rota Naval Base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11545],"tags":[17594,12825,10669],"class_list":["post-48874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-navy","tag-frigate-santa-maria-f-81","tag-naval-station-rota","tag-spanish-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}