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Duwamish was one of the most powerful fireboats in the United States several times over her 75-year working life. She is the second oldest vessel designed to fight fires in the US, after Edward M. Cotter, in Buffalo, New York.
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The Alki is a fireboat noted for its long service in Seattle, Washington. The boat was built in 1927 and is 123 feet (37 m) long. She was Seattle's third fireboat. 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. She replaced the Snoqualmie, Seattle's first fireboat.
The City of Long Beach, California started to operate a new fireboat, now known as the Protector, in May 2014. The vessel was known as Fireboat 20, until she was officially commissioned, on June 8, 2016. A sister ship will follow within a year. The two new vessels will replace the Challenger and the Liberty, commissioned in 1987. The earlier vessels had a troubled maintenance record. She will be one of the most powerful fireboats in the world.
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The Abram S. Hewitt was a coal-powered fireboat operated by the Fire Department of New York City from 1903 to 1958. She was the department's last coal-powered vessel and had a pumping capacity of 7,000 gallons per minute.
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The Harry Newell is a highspeed fireboat operated out of Ketchikan, Alaska, since August, 1986. She is built of aluminum, is 45 feet (14 m) long, is propelled by a pair of 410 brake horsepower (310 kW) diesel engines, at up to 30 knots (56 km/h). Her pumps can throw 5,000 gallons per minute through four water cannons.
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The Portland Fire Bureau of the city of Portland, Oregon owns and operates Fireboats in Portland, Oregon.
The David Campbell was a long-serving fireboat built in 1928 for Oregon's Portland Fire & Rescue. She underwent an extensive rebuild, in 1976. In 2010 Portland acquired a new smaller, faster fireboat, the Eldon Trinity, after a child died, in 2009, when it took the David Campbell 44 minutes to get to scene to provide medical care.
The Salish Star is a fireboat operated by the city of Bellingham, Washington. The vessel cost approximately $1 million. The Department of Homeland Security supplied three quarters of the cost through a FEMA Port Security Grant. The Port of Bellingham and the city of Bellingham provided the remainder.
The HBMS Cascarilla is the second of four Damen Stan 3007 patrol vessels commissioned by the Royal Bahamas Defence Force.
As a major port, there is a long history of fireboats in Singapore.
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- 1 2 Brian K. Johnson, Don Porth (2007). "Portland Fire & Rescue". Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738548838 . Retrieved 2017-03-19.
- ↑ Mohsin Askari (1994-06-07). "LEWISTON CITY COUNCIL; Ambulance gets ticket for improper parking Citizen accuses city of harassing a private business". Lewiston Tribune . Retrieved 2017-03-19.
Earlier, during the noon work session, the council gave the go-ahead to the fire department to investigate ways of replacing the existing fire boat, the Karl Prehn. The Karl Prehn was acquired in 1983, with several entities paying the cost.
- ↑ Sandra L. Lee (1994-09-27). "Fireboat likely to be sold next year; replacement date uncertain". Lewiston Tribune . Retrieved 2017-03-19.
The Lewiston City Council decided at noon Monday to contact brokers about selling the boat, which has been in the valley since 1984.
- ↑ David Johnson (1995-12-10). "Parade chairman has hard time getting into the action; Boat owners not only had to brave snow and cold to get their boats into the water, but had to fight the ice to keep them going and lighted". Lewiston Tribune . Retrieved 2018-08-20.
Missing from this year's parade was the Karl Prehn, the Lewiston Fire Department's old fireboat. She used to lead the parade, spouting water into the air, but was retired earlier this year.
- ↑ "and the Atlas sure did their stuff" (PDF). The West Coast Fisheries. March 1931. Retrieved 2017-03-19.