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Deluge, retired fire fighting tug. Tokyo Fire Department 's Ariake fireboat. The Edward M. Cotter of Buffalo, New York, considered the world's oldest active fireboat. A fireboat or fire-float is a specialized watercraft with pumps and nozzles designed for fighting shoreline and shipboard fires.
Minecraft is a 3D survival sandbox game developed and published by Mojang, spanning multiple platforms. It was originally created by the independent video game designer Markus Persson in 2009, before giving the development to Jens Bergensten in 2011. The game has no specific goals to accomplish, allowing players a large amount of freedom in ...
Added to NRHP. June 15, 2000. John J. Harvey is a fireboat formerly of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) in New York City, famed for returning to service following the September 11, 2001 attacks. [2][3] She is one of the most powerful fireboats ever built, capable of pumping up to 18,000 gallons of water a minute.
Three Forty Three. Three Forty Three is a Ranger 4200 class fireboat that serves the New York City Fire Department as marine company 1. [2] Designed by Robert Allan Ltd. and built to replace the 1954 John D. McKean. It was commissioned at 0900 hours on September 11, 2010, exactly nine years after the 2001 terrorist attacks.
1. Jens Peder Bergensten (born 18 May 1979), known professionally as Jeb, is a Swedish video game programmer and designer. He is best known as the lead designer of Minecraft, [1][2][3] and is the chief creative officer of Mojang Studios. In 2013, he, along with Minecraft creator Markus Persson, was named as one of Time 's 100 most influential ...
Markus Persson founded Mojang Studios in 2009.. Mojang Studios was founded by Markus Persson, a Swedish independent video game designer and programmer, in 2009. [4] [5] He had gained interest in video games at an early age, playing The Bard's Tale and several pirated games on his father's Commodore 128 home computer, and learned to programme at age eight with help from his sister.
The Alki is a fireboat noted for its long service in Seattle, Washington. [1] The boat was built in 1927 and is 123 feet (37 m) long. She was Seattle's third fireboat. [3] She was built with gasoline engines, which were replaced with diesels in 1947. The new engine retrofit allowed the Alki to increase its pumping capacity from 12,000 gallons ...
Fireboats of Chicago. Joseph Medill Fireboat 1967. In 1908 the City of Chicago operated a fleet of large steam-powered fireboats, but by the end of the 20th Century they had largely been replaced by smaller, faster, less powerful vessels. As an important port city, Chicago has operated dedicated fireboats since 1877. [1] [2]