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- The boat's name comes from the number of [[FDNY]] members killed in the line of duty The 140-foot, 500-ton, $27 million fast response boat is the country's largest fireboat, with a maximum speed of 18 knots. The ''2 KB (327 words) - 17:52, 18 July 2022
- | quote = Victoria firefighters used their fire boat and a high-angle ladder truck to pour water onto the barge. | quote = Victoria firefighters used their fire boat and a high-angle ladder truck to pour water onto the barge.5 KB (586 words) - 08:35, 6 March 2024
- {{rpl|Rescue Boat 17}}503 bytes (58 words) - 21:47, 15 July 2022
- | url = https://spectrumlocalnews.com/news/2015/10/22/albany-fire-boat-now-equipped-to-use-foam-to-extinguish-fires | title = Albany Fire Boat Now Equipped to Use Foam to Extinguish Fires3 KB (393 words) - 16:01, 22 December 2023
- {{r|Dragon boat}}429 bytes (62 words) - 11:28, 25 November 2010
- ; abaft : further toward the back of the boat ...center of small sailboats to reduce the amount of sideways movement of the boat6 KB (998 words) - 23:52, 9 January 2008
- | title=Patrol boat replacement The stern launching ramp allows a water-jet powered pursuit boat to be launched and retrieved without bringing the cutter to a halt.2 KB (349 words) - 16:56, 24 April 2011
- [[File:A house boat sits half capsized in it's mooring, Key West, Florida, Sept. 15, 2017.jpg |454 bytes (71 words) - 14:31, 19 March 2023
- | title = The history of Lambeth River Station, from barge to boat | title = Fire Boat Alpha II (1935)2 KB (214 words) - 05:07, 2 September 2022
- ...it boat carries a [[boarding party]] to perform an inspection of a fishing boat.]]3 KB (281 words) - 10:00, 10 February 2023
- ...e torpedoes that could cripple or sink a battleship — if the torpedo boat could survive to get into range. ...going battleships from coastal torpedo boats, blue-water created "torpedo boat destroyers", as vessels large enough to accompany a battle force crossing o4 KB (592 words) - 16:22, 30 March 2024
- ...oat || number<br>of boats || pumping<br>capacity<br>of most<br>powerful<br>boat || notes ...partment christened the first gasoline powered fire boat in the world. The boat, the "Bill Kettner" was built from the keel up at the San Diego Fire Depart5 KB (647 words) - 05:13, 22 February 2024
- * Boat Troop: amphibious operations, overlapping [[Special Boat Service]]2 KB (244 words) - 18:04, 17 February 2010
- ...www.action-alameda-news.com/2012/09/24/alameda-fire-department-to-buy-fire-boat/ | title = Alameda Fire Department to Buy Fire Boat6 KB (817 words) - 10:05, 1 April 2023
- | url = http://whatsupnewp.com/city-of-newport-to-receive-new-fire-boat-on-monday-april-23rd/ | title = City of Newport to receive new fire boat on Monday, April 23rd6 KB (797 words) - 15:00, 19 December 2023
- {{r|Special Boat Service}}151 bytes (18 words) - 03:18, 10 March 2024
- The boat can pump 11,000 [[gallons per minute]].<ref name=Dombrowski/> The ''Curtis ...its mooring in the [[Detroit River]] in October to prevent ice damage, the boat still had not been removed.<ref name=MyFoxNews2015-02-19/>8 KB (1,007 words) - 14:53, 15 April 2024
- {{Image|ThreeMeninaBoatPub.jpg|right|200px|Three Men in a Boat public house circa early-1950s, prior to the construction of the ballroom, ...named after [[Jerome K. Jerome]]'s humorous travelogue ''[[Three Men in a Boat]] (To Say Nothing of the Dog)'', Jerome being a resident of nearby Caldmore3 KB (455 words) - 02:02, 7 March 2010
- In its present incarnation, "it's a small world" is a [[flume]] (boat) ride. The boats carry visitors through a series of rooms depicting childre ...r was [[Mary Blair]]. It was originally a walk-through exhibit, becoming a boat ride when it was moved to Disneyland.2 KB (266 words) - 12:36, 10 May 2009
- The boat is named after [[Louis Behrens]], who was Chief of Charleston's fire depart | url = https://abcnews4.com/archive/charleston-fire-boat-involved-in-accident-while-helping-stranded-navy-vessel6 KB (702 words) - 10:03, 1 December 2023
- ...of 1980, when his skill and daring enabled him to rescue stricken pleasure boat crew off [[Tillamook Bay, Oregon]].<ref name=UscgBioRichardDixon> ...nter Tillamook Bay's harbor. Dixon and the Coxswain of another motor life boat maneuvered beside the yacht, to absorb some of the wave energy as if entere3 KB (421 words) - 19:22, 12 July 2013
- ...''[[The New York Times]]'' profiled a new large fireboat, and a new police boat. ...me=nytimes2010-04-02/> However, unlike the Coast Guard vessel, the Police Boat would not have a permanent mount for a machine gun.4 KB (503 words) - 10:18, 8 April 2023
- | url = http://wfla.com/2018/02/15/target-8-4m-tampa-fire-boat-mia-for-2-5-years/ | title = Target 8: $4M Tampa fire boat MIA for 2.5 years2 KB (266 words) - 01:45, 1 December 2023
- Savannah acquired the boat in 2014, with $1.2 million of its cost paid for through a [[FEMA Port Secur Savannah Alderman [[Julian Miller]] justified the retirement by asserting the boat cost $500,000 to operate, and had never been employed fighting fires, and t5 KB (641 words) - 10:01, 1 December 2023
- ...rucks cranes at full extension, water from their hoses could not reach the boat. In May 2016 a large riverfront property went up in flames. Land-based cr ...= http://triblive.com/local/allegheny/12576577-74/pittsburghs-new-fire-boat-is-powerful-enough-to-spray-a-bridge-fire9 KB (1,169 words) - 19:50, 6 March 2024
- | || [[Baltimore Fire Rescue Boat 1|''Fire Rescue Boat 1'']] || 2003 || ? || 1,500 || Just {{convert|30|ft|m}} long, requires a cr | || [[Baltimore Fire Rescue Boat 2|''Fire Rescue Boat 2'']] || 2003 || ? || 1,500 || Just {{convert|30|ft|m}} long, requires a cr4 KB (536 words) - 09:54, 18 March 2023
- ...s a means of transportation, defense, or recreation. Although the term "[[boat]]" may be used synonymously as a "[[slang term]]" for the word "ship", the2 KB (290 words) - 21:44, 14 April 2011
- | title = Acquisition Success Story: the Marine Protector-class Patrol Boat Project | title = Coastal Patrol Boat2 KB (324 words) - 14:48, 23 May 2011
- ...rucks cranes at full extension, water from their hoses could not reach the boat. In May 2016 a large riverfront property went up in flames. Land-based cr ...= http://triblive.com/local/allegheny/12576577-74/pittsburghs-new-fire-boat-is-powerful-enough-to-spray-a-bridge-fire9 KB (1,181 words) - 19:50, 6 March 2024
- ...of the [[New York City Fire Department]] (FDNY) on December 7, 2010. The boat replaces the original ''[[Fire Fighter (fireboat)|''Fire Fighter'']]'', and ...- Move for Less}}</ref> The 140-foot, 500-ton, $27 million fast response boat is the country's largest fireboat, with a maximum speed of 18 knots. It inc2 KB (296 words) - 17:47, 18 July 2022
- | title = Portland fire boat to be named for children thrown from Sellwood Bridge | title = Portland fire boat DAVID CAMPBELL, Portland, Oregon4 KB (511 words) - 09:25, 29 November 2023
- ...he ice-strengthened bulk carrier|for the traditional northern skin-covered boat|Umiak}} --> ...ak]] is the Inuktitut name for a supply boat or sometimes called a woman’s boat, and is a fitting name for a vessel carrying concentrate from Voisey’s Ba3 KB (424 words) - 08:51, 28 February 2022
- {{r|Skipjack (boat)}}219 bytes (28 words) - 15:35, 30 September 2009
- ...depth, while the bottom line of the vessel slopes upward, so that when the boat encounters ice in hurrying to the scene of a conflagration, it glides upon ...mos and supply motive power to the boat. So powerful are the pumps of this boat that eleven streams of water may be thrown at one time, or a double stream5 KB (756 words) - 12:54, 22 June 2023
- ...boat suddenly came to a halt, yet the great hump of water in front of the boat kept on moving as a single wave, apparently without losing speed. Russell f ...rove coastal defences and tidal rivers. He also realised that by pulling a boat at just the right speed it could rise onto this wave of translation and "su3 KB (559 words) - 01:57, 6 February 2010
- ...o acquire a new fireboat, and in December 2016 a [[Pittsburgh fireboat|new boat]] was ordered.<ref name=Cbs2015-11-07/> | url = http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2015/11/07/ohio-river-boat-fire/5 KB (602 words) - 21:14, 14 July 2022
- ...n City Council decided at noon Monday to contact brokers about selling the boat, which has been in the valley since 1984. ...://lmtribune.com/northwest/lewiston-fire-department-wants-new-and-improved-boat-the-karl/article_2356ceb9-0108-5553-82ad-1bb0cd32929d.html4 KB (529 words) - 09:25, 29 November 2023
- [[File:Chicago fire boat Victor L. Schlaeger -e.jpg|thumb|300px|Chicago fire boat ''Victor L. Schlaeger'']]3 KB (319 words) - 16:47, 27 January 2023
- {{r|Special Boat Service}}685 bytes (93 words) - 01:48, 30 November 2010
- ...er. In his "Report on Waves", he describes observations he made while in a boat on the Union Canal at Hermiston, close to [[Edinburgh]]. He wrote <ref>Repo ...ich was rapidly drawn along a narrow channel by a pair of horses, when the boat suddenly stopped - not so the mass of water in the channel which it had put3 KB (457 words) - 18:04, 3 October 2008
- ...a boat crew of local volunteers, and, when vessel was a risk, to lead the boat crew in rowing to stricken vessels to rescue their crews.<ref name=UscgBioJ ...special boat house. During a rescue the crew would tow the wagon with the boat to the nearest relatively safe place to launch.5 KB (744 words) - 16:47, 27 January 2023
- ...e|FalkirkWheelSide 2004 SeanMcClean.jpg|right|350px| The Fallkirk Wheel, a boat lift in the United Kingdom.}} '''Lift locks''', also known as '''ship lifts''' or '''boat lifts''', are an alternative to conventional [[canal lock]]s.3 KB (421 words) - 10:08, 28 February 2024
- Two recent fires, a boat fire in 2015, and fire on a bridge undergoing maintenance, in 2016, convinc ...Boats]], of [[Superior, Wiscconsin]], was awarded a contract to build the boat, for $542,750.<ref name=Superior2016-01-11/> The firm beat out two competi10 KB (1,210 words) - 19:50, 6 March 2024
- ...ww.courierpostonline.com/story/news/2016/03/31/westville-philadelphia-fire-boat/82471904/ ...stonline.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2F2016%2F03%2F31%2Fwestville-philadelphia-fire-boat%2F82471904%2F&date=2018-09-056 KB (703 words) - 09:06, 15 July 2022
- ...ca Star]]'' reported that after the fireboat assigned to the Kingston Fire Boat Station had been out of service for most of 2004—being sent for repair fo ...ant port, had been without a fireboat for over five years, as the previous boat had been written off as not worth repairing, but had yet to be replaced.<re10 KB (1,321 words) - 23:47, 14 July 2022
- {{r|Three Men in a Boat (public house)}}711 bytes (111 words) - 05:24, 18 May 2014
- | url = http://www.westport-news.com/news/article/Pumped-up-Fire-boat-deployed-for-firefighting-5654172.php#photo-6656574 | title = Pumped up: Fire boat deployed for firefighting drill5 KB (748 words) - 08:34, 6 March 2024
- ...tres (40 to 50 feet). Rent a canoe or launch your own small non-motorized boat.3 KB (349 words) - 08:39, 15 February 2024
- ''cock'' '''cócks''' = ''person'' '''Cóx''' = ''boat'' '''cóx1 KB (189 words) - 12:56, 10 March 2017
- ...s firefighters had been reduced to fighting fires using only an inflatable boat. ...nd-politics/4514929-duluth-fire-department-now-expects-spring-delivery-new-boat9 KB (1,129 words) - 17:43, 3 March 2022