fireboat
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 equipme ...
operated by the Fire Department of New York City.
She was commissioned on May 27, 2011.
The FDNY currently has four large fireboats, including the ''Bravest'', supplemented by approximately a dozen smaller high speed patrol craft.
The two largest fireboats, '' Firefighter II'' and ''
Three Forty Three
''Three Forty Three'' is a ''Ranger 4200'' class fireboat that serves the New York City Fire Department as Marine Company 1. Designed by Robert Allan Ltd. and built to replace the 1954 '' John D. McKean,'' it was commissioned at 0900 on Septem ...
'', are among the largest and most powerful fireboats in the world. At 20 knots they are relatively fast. ''Bravest'' and FB Feehan, at appx. 65 feet, are comparable in size and power with many cities' largest fireboats, but have the high speed and shallow draft of a modern high speed patrol craft.
''Bravest''s shallow draft of just 1 metre means she can fight fires in the shallow waters off New York City's airports.
Her nameplate was carved from a plate of steel recovered from the
World Trade Center
World Trade Centers are sites recognized by the World Trade Centers Association.
World Trade Center may refer to:
Buildings
* List of World Trade Centers
* World Trade Center (2001–present), a building complex that includes five skyscrapers, a ...
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See also
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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. These smal ...