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 ...
Fire Commissioner
A fire chief or fire commissioner is a top executive rank or commanding officer in a fire department.
Nomenclature
Various official English-language titles for a fire chief include ''fire chief'', ''chief fire officer'' and ''fire commissioner' ...
S. Howland Robbins.
Her pumps were capable of projecting 13,000 gallons per minute. As the Fire Department's most powerful vessel she was considered the fleet's flagship, until her retirement in 1931, when she was replaced by .
Operational career
On January 18, 1909, the crew of ''The New Yorker'' rescued a young woman who had slipped on the ice on the seawall near their boat, and fallen into the river. Two observers had jumped in after Albertine Decquer, and the fireboat's crew rescued all three.
On June 9, 1922, ''The New Yorker'' rescued Fannie Schecht, a well-dressed young woman who was seen trying to make her way to shore, in the middle of the Hudson.