Submarine That Caught Fire Was Used For Movie

(Providence, RI)--A Russian submarine once used in the Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson movie "K-19: The Widowmaker" caught fire in Providence on Tuesday.The submarine was being taken apart in a scrapyard off Allens Avenue when the fire on its hull was started through the use of blowtorches.The vessel had a long post-Cold War history that included being used as a floating museum after it was acquired by the USS Saratoga Museum Foundation in Rhode Island.It sank during a storm in 2007.

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