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 from 1883 to 1958. She was the department's first iron-hulled vessel and had a pumping capacity of per minute.
Around 1882, ''Zohpar Mills'' reportedly collided with a pier at Little 12th Street (, the present-day location of
Little Island at Pier 55
Little Island at Pier 55 (stylized as Little Island @Pier55) is an artificial island park in the Hudson River west of Manhattan in New York City, adjoining Hudson River Park. Designed by Heatherwick Studio, it is near the intersection of West ...
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According to some accounts, she was the first fireboat called to the burning of , where over a thousand people died. Other accounts say was the first fireboat to be dispatched.