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A fireboat or fire-float is a specialized watercraft with pumps and nozzles designed for fighting shoreline and shipboard fires. The first fireboats, dating to the late 18th century, were tugboats, retrofitted with firefighting equipment. [1]
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.
Edward M. Cotter escorting USS Little Rock (LCS-9). Edward M. Cotter is a fireboat in use by the Buffalo Fire Department at Buffalo, New York, United States. Originally named William S. Grattan, it was built in 1900 by the Crescent Shipyard of Elizabeth Port, New Jersey. Due to age, it was rebuilt in 1953 and renamed Firefighter upon its return ...
First fireboat on North America's west coast. [1] Duwamish: 1909: 1985: Duwamish was originally built with a "ram" bow, so she could sink a blazing vessel before it set other vessels ablaze. [1] Currently a museum ship. Alki: 1927: 2013: Chief Seattle: 1984: in service: Marine One: 2006: in service: Leschi: 2007: in service
Vigilance is a fireboat operated by Long Beach, California. It is the second of two large fireboats Long Beach commissioned and the largest on North America 's West Coast. Vigilance and Protector were designed by Robert Allan Limited, a firm known for designing many widely admired tugboats, fireboats and support vessels. [1]
The Abram S. Hewitt was a coal-powered fireboat operated by the Fire Department of New York City from 1903 to 1958. [1][2][3] She was the department's last coal-powered vessel and had a pumping capacity of 7,000 gallons per minute. She was launched on July 11, 1903, at the shipyards of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, New Jersey ...
Fire Fighter is a fireboat which served the New York City Fire Department from 1938 through 2010, serving with Marine Companies 1, 8 and 9 during her career. The most powerful diesel-electric fireboat in terms of pumping capacity when built in 1938, Fire Fighter fought more than 50 major fires during her career, including fires aboard the SS Normandie in 1942 and the SS El Estero in 1943, the ...