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Fireboats of New York City. For much of the late 19th and early 20th century, New York City maintained a fleet of ten fireboats. In recent decades technology has improved to where smaller boats can provide the pumping capacity that required a large boat in the past. [1] These smaller boats require smaller crews, and the crews themselves require ...
Capacity. 20,000 gpm/50,000 gpm max. Crew. 7. 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 ...
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.
45 knots (83 km/h) The Bravest is a fireboat operated by the Fire Department of New York City. [1] She was commissioned on May 27, 2011. [2] The FDNY currently has four large fireboats, including the Bravest, supplemented by approximately a dozen smaller high speed patrol craft. [1] The two largest fireboats, Firefighter II and Three Forty ...
Thomas Willett, celebrating July 4th, 1908. Thomas Willett was a New York City Fire Department fireboat. [2] She was launched in 1908 and retired in 1959. She was built as a steam-engine powered vessel with coal-fired boilers. She was converted to oil-fired boilers in 1926.
7,000 US gallons (26,000 L) / min. (during DCFD service) [4] The John H. Glenn Jr. is a fireboat stationed on the Potomac and Anacostia rivers in Washington, D.C. [3] Her bow was reinforced in 1984, allowing her to also serve as an icebreaker during the winter. The vessel served the New York City Fire Department for her first fifteen years ...
Designated NHL. June 28, 1996 [2] 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 to service.
William J. Gaynor. (fireboat) Fireboat William J. Gaynor, in 1915. The Fire Department of New York operated a fireboat named William J. Gaynor from 1914 to 1961. [1] Construction began in March 1913. [2] Her cost was projected to be $118,000. She was 118 feet (36 m) long, with a beam of 25 feet (7.6 m). According to The New York Times her pumps ...