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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 ''
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  • | 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.
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  • {{rpl|Rescue Boat 17}}
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  • | 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 Fires
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  • {{r|Dragon boat}}
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  • ; abaft : further toward the back of the boat ...center of small sailboats to reduce the amount of sideways movement of the boat
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  • | 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.
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  • [[File:A house boat sits half capsized in it's mooring, Key West, Florida, Sept. 15, 2017.jpg |
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  • | title = The history of Lambeth River Station, from barge to boat | title = Fire Boat Alpha II (1935)
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  • ...it boat carries a [[boarding party]] to perform an inspection of a fishing boat.]]
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  • ...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 o
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  • ...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 Depart
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  • * Boat Troop: amphibious operations, overlapping [[Special Boat Service]]
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  • ...www.action-alameda-news.com/2012/09/24/alameda-fire-department-to-buy-fire-boat/ | title = Alameda Fire Department to Buy Fire Boat
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  • | 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 23rd
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  • {{r|Special Boat Service}}
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  • 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/>
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  • {{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 Caldmore
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  • 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.
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  • 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-vessel
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  • ...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 entere
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  • ...''[[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.
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  • | 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 years
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  • 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 t
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  • ...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-fire
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  • | || [[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 cr
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  • ...s a means of transportation, defense, or recreation. Although the term "[[boat]]" may be used synonymously as a "[[slang term]]" for the word "ship", the
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  • | title = Acquisition Success Story: the Marine Protector-class Patrol Boat Project | title = Coastal Patrol Boat
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  • ...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-fire
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  • ...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 inc
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  • | title = Portland fire boat to be named for children thrown from Sellwood Bridge | title = Portland fire boat DAVID CAMPBELL, Portland, Oregon
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  • ...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 Ba
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  • {{r|Skipjack (boat)}}
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  • ...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 stream
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  • ...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 "su
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  • ...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/
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  • ...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.html
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  • [[File:Chicago fire boat Victor L. Schlaeger -e.jpg|thumb|300px|Chicago fire boat ''Victor L. Schlaeger'']]
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  • {{r|Special Boat Service}}
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  • ...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 put
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  • ...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.
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  • ...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.
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  • 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 competi
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  • ...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=2018-09-05
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  • ...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.<re
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  • {{r|Three Men in a Boat (public house)}}
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  • | 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 drill
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  • ...tres (40 to 50 feet). Rent a canoe or launch your own small non-motorized boat.
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  • ''cock'' '''cócks''' = ''person'' '''Cóx''' = ''boat'' '''cóx
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  • ...s firefighters had been reduced to fighting fires using only an inflatable boat. ...nd-politics/4514929-duluth-fire-department-now-expects-spring-delivery-new-boat
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