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Fireboat As Water Transport
A fireboat 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 equipment. Older designs derived from tugboats and modern fireboats more closely resembling seafaring ships can both be found in service today. Some departments would give their multi-purpose craft the title of "fireboat" also. [from wikipedia]
2007 Fireboat 2008 Fireboat 2010 Fireboat 2018 Fireboat 2022 Fireboat
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2007 Fireboat, As Water Transport

Some modern fireboats are capable of pumping tens of thousands of gallons of water per minute.[from wikipedia]

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2008 Fireboat, As Water Transport

Fireboats are most usually seen by the public when welcoming a fleet or historical ships with a display of their water moving capabilities, throwing large arcs of water in every direction.[from wikipedia]

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2010 Fireboat, As Water Transport

Cities with fireboats are usually located on a large body of water with port facilities. Smaller fire departments lacking resources will use a rigid-hulled inflatable boat or borrow boats from local rescue agencies (EMS, Coast Guard, military).[from wikipedia]

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2018 Fireboat, As Water Transport

By the middle of the nineteenth century, self-propelled steam-fire-floats were beginning to be introduced. The FDNY leased the salvage tug John Fuller as the city's first powered fireboat in 1866.[from wikipedia]

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2022 Fireboat, New SF Fireboat Station, As Water Transport, San Francisco, California

A fireboat 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 equipment. Older designs derived from tugboats and modern fireboats more closely resembling seafaring ships can both be found in service today. Some departments would give their multi-purpose craft the title of "fireboat" also.[from wikipedia]


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