Firefighters battle shipyard blaze

There was alarm at a shipyard in Henderson in Western Australia this afternoon after a fire started burning below a large vessel.

Firefighters arrived on the scene and set up an exclusion zone around the HMAS Darwin, a decommissioned frigate, as they fought the blaze from a distance.

There were fears that the fire could be fuelled by nearby LPG cylinders, gas and oxygen tanks, however the blaze is now under control.

The cause of the fire is not known.