​On April 12, 2023, about 0015 local time, the small passenger vessel Lady Delray was moored, unattended and locked up, alongside the dock at Veterans Park on the Intracoastal Waterway in Delray Beach, Florida, when a bystander on shore reported a fire on board the vessel. The local fire department responded to the scene and extinguished the fire. The vessel was later towed to a boatyard for repairs. No pollution or injuries were reported. Damage to the vessel was estimated at $500,000.

​We determined that the probable cause of the fire on board the passenger vessel Lady Delray was either the failure of a two door, keg-type refrigeration unit’s hermetically sealed compressor or an unknown electrical source in the bulkhead directly behind the unit, which ignited wood paneling and other nearby combustible materials.​