What probably happened aboard HMS Dasher?
Short answerA major accident involving aviation-fuel lines or fumes is the likely explanation, and the loss prompted stricter British fuel-management and fire-prevention modifications.
NotesHMS Dasher's loss is judged to have been an accident, with aviation fuel as the central suspicion. Fuel lines and accumulated fumes could connect a small failure to the ship's stores and produce catastrophic destruction. Later British escort carriers received more thorough fuel-management and fire-prevention work in response to that risk.