Fire Island Ferries is a passenger and freight ferry service, serving the Western communities of

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, New York.

History

Edward J. Mooney, who joined the company in 1948, acquired Fire Island Ferries in 1972. After Mooney's death in December 2020, his casket was taken around

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for a memorial aboard one of the company's ferry boats."Obituary: Captain Edwin J. Mooney Jr., owner of Fire Island Ferries"
Greater Long Island, December 31, 2020. Accessed December 31, 2020. "Captain Edwin J. Mooney Jr., born in Teaneck, N.J., in 1929, started working for Fire Island Ferries as a deckhand after moving to Bay Shore in 1948. Twenty-four years later, in 1972, he would come to purchase the company, and proceed to grow it to Fire Island’s largest ferry provider."

Zee Line Ferry Acquisition

South Bay Water Taxi Acquisition

Fire aboard the ''Fire Island Belle''

On September 20, 2009, at 10:10

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, the passenger ferry Fire Island Belle, with 100 passengers, the vessel master, and two deckhands on board, experienced an

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fire in the

between Long Island and

, New York. The vessel had departed Ocean Beach, Fire Island, 10 minutes earlier, and was approximately from the dock at Fair Harbor, Fire Island, when the fire broke out. No passengers or crewmembers were injured, and no

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resulted. The cost of repairing the vessel was $490,000. The

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was the lead investigative agency in the accident. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) provided assistance with

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and metallurgical analysis.

Destinations

* Kismet * Saltaire (village) * Fair Harbor * Dunewood * Atlantique * Ocean Beach (village) * Seaview * Ocean Bay Park Fire Island Ferries - Vagabond 1

Fire Island Ferry Fleet

As if 10.17.2019, Fire Island Ferries, Inc operates the following vessels:

Fire Island Water Taxi

References

External links

Fire Island Ferries

Fire Island Travel Guide
{{Fire Island Fire Island, New York Ferry companies of New York (state)