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2. Alki (boat) - Wikipedia

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   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 per minute to 16,200 gallons per minute. [4]

3. Deluge (fireboat, 1949) - Wikipedia

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   Deluge was a fireboat built for the Milwaukee, Wisconsin fire department. [1] She was christened on 1 April 1949. According to The Milwaukee Journal, "Deluge will be the most modern and one of the most powerful fire fighting craft west of New York city."'

4. Fireboat - Wikipedia

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   Occasionally fireboats are used to carry firefighters, Emergency Medical Technicians, and a physician with their equipment to islands and other boats. Some may be used as icebreakers, like the Chicago Fire Department's Victor L. Schlaeger which can break 8 to 12 inch ice. [2] They may also carry divers or surface water rescue workers.

5. Three Forty Three - Wikipedia

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   The 140-foot (43 m), 500-ton, $27 million fast response boat is the country's largest fireboat, with a maximum speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph). The Three Forty Three incorporates the latest technology available for marine vessels, including the capability of pumping 50,000 US gallons (190,000 L; 42,000 imp gal) of water per minute, nearly ...

6. David Campbell (1927 fireboat) - Wikipedia

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   David Campbell in 2006.. The David Campbell was a long-serving fireboat built in 1928 for Oregon's Portland Fire & Rescue. [1] She underwent an extensive rebuild, in 1976. In 2010 Portland acquired a new smaller, faster fireboat, the Eldon Trinity, named after the two children who were thrown off the Sellwood Bridge in 2009, when it took the David Campbell 44 minutes to get to scene to provide ...

7. John H. Glenn Jr. (fireboat) - Wikipedia

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   The vessel served the New York City Fire Department for her first fifteen years before being sold to the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department in 1977. [3] When she was built, she was both faster than her older fleet-mates, and had a shallower draft, making her well-suited to be stationed in a region of the Hudson ...

8. Fireboats of Detroit - Wikipedia

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   Built by Detroit Ship Building Company, later sold as tug to Sincennes-McNaughton Line (1941-1959) and McAllister Towing and Salvage Incorporated in Montreal for used as fireboat in Montreal from 1959 to 1992 [2] Detroit Ship Building Co. Retired and scrapped with cabin/funnel surviving in Port Colborne Dry Dock [3] James R. Elliott: 1902: 1930

9. Fireboat Tiburon - Wikipedia

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   Fireboat Tiburon, like other fireboats purchased with the help of a port security grant, has first aid facilities and sensors for search and rescue. [1]The vessel is a catamaran, with a 22 inch draft, and twin 380 brake horsepower (280 kW) diesels engines power waterjets, not propellers, allowing her to be able to risk getting close to shore, without damage.