Story Soviets Carrier Admiral Gorshkov-Vikramaditya

From Journal of the Australian Naval Institute No150

Perhaps more significantly, when
the Russians sold her, the carrier had
no usable powerplant, due to a fire
in her boilers. Replacing or repairing
the boilers was a major job, given the
amount of ship structure between
them and the flight deck. When
Vikramaditya ran her first sea trials
last year, when she was to have been
delivered, her engines suddenly cut
out when she reached 30 knots. It
turned out that seven of her eight
boilers had failed because the fire
(insulating) bricks in them had melted