{"id":56827,"date":"2024-08-16T23:52:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T21:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=56827"},"modified":"2024-08-22T20:26:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T18:26:14","slug":"former-russian-aircraft-carrier-minsk-suffers-disastrous-fire-in-nantong-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/08\/16\/former-russian-aircraft-carrier-minsk-suffers-disastrous-fire-in-nantong-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Russian aircraft carrier Minsk suffers disastrous fire in Nantong, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago I published here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/03\/minsk-an-abandoned-soviet-aircraft-carrier-with-a-plane-torpedoes-and-missiles-inside\/\">an article about an abandoned aircraft carrier, the Minsk<\/a>, which had belonged to the Russian Navy.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/03\/03\/the-infiltration-of-a-group-of-spanish-explorers-into-the-russian-aircraft-carrier-minsk\/\">The infiltration of a group of Spanish explorers into the Russian aircraft carrier Minsk<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/09\/03\/minsk-an-abandoned-soviet-aircraft-carrier-with-a-plane-torpedoes-and-missiles-inside\/\">Minsk: an abandoned Soviet aircraft carrier with a plane, torpedoes and missiles inside<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>This ship was decommissioned in 1993 and <strong>in 1995 it was sold to a group of Chinese businessmen<\/strong>, who wanted to turn it into a theme park. The company went bankrupt in 2006 and the ship was sold again, leaving it almost abandoned. In March 2024 we saw here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/03\/03\/la-infiltracion-de-un-grupo-de-exploradores-espanoles-en-el-portaaviones-ruso-minsk\/\">an infiltration of Spanish explorers on that ship<\/a>. The projects to refurbish it and turn it into a theme park were delayed. Sadly, today we see this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"665\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CHINA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CHINA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CHINE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CHINE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Fire?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Fire<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Incendio?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Incendio<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Incendie?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Incendie<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34 CHINA :\ud83d\udcf9 MAJOR FIRE AT THE FORMER SOVIET AIRCRAFT CARRIER &quot;MINSK&quot; IN NANTONG<\/p>\n<p>Minsk is seriously damaged by the fire at Suxitong Industrial Park where it was undergoing refurbishment. The ship was formerly a tourist\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yp6KRcGVUH\">pic.twitter.com\/Yp6KRcGVUH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LW World News \ud83c\udf0d (@LoveWorld_Peopl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LoveWorld_Peopl\/status\/1824555875211898972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>The Twitter account <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LoveWorld_Peopl\/status\/1824555875211898972\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@LoveWorld_Peopl<\/a> notes: <em>\"<strong>The Minsk was severely damaged by a fire at the Suxitong industrial park where it was undergoing construction.<\/strong> The ship was formerly a tourist attraction known as Minsk World.\"<\/em> The vessel was in China's Nantong Lagoon on the Yangtze River.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guancha.cn\/politics\/2024_08_16_745094.shtml\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A local Chinese media outlet reports<\/a>: <em>\"The Suxitong Science and Technology Industrial Park Fire Rescue Brigade reported that <strong>at around 16:00 on the 16th, a fire broke out during the dismantling and renovation of an old aircraft carrier<\/strong> on the Yangtze River in Suxitong Park. At present, fire, emergency, public security and other departments are working hard to deal with the incident at the scene. <strong>There are no casualties, and the cause of the accident is under investigation.<\/strong>\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53927940330_5c0c7d4573_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Twitter account <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/oxminer_lowsen\/status\/1824469247441113180\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@oxminer_lowsen<\/a> <strong>has posted these two photos of the fire<\/strong>. Everything indicates that the aircraft carrier would have been seriously damaged and beyond repair, given the dimensions of the fire.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53927490586_405c0f09d2_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>+ UPDATED 17.8.2024 18:06: Twitter user <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/oxminer_lowsen\/status\/1824676778583171405\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@oxminer_lowsen posted these two photos of the aircraft carrier after the fire was extinguished<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53927929432_3d076830aa_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>It appears that the damage has mainly affected the ship's island,<\/strong> leaving its bridge and the entire upper part practically destroyed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53929175629_4089956259_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago I published here an article about an abandoned aircraft carrier, the Minsk, which had belonged to the Russian Navy.<\/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":[19535,11549,16877],"tags":[17314,17313,17125],"class_list":["post-56827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring-portada-eng","category-military-history","category-ruins","tag-minsk-aircraft-carrier","tag-nantong","tag-peoples-republic-of-china"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 10:03:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56827","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=56827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}