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Fireboat No. 1
Fireboat No. 1 was built in 1929 by the Coastline Shipbuilding Company of Tacoma for $148,000. She is 96 feet, six inches long with a 21-foot, six-inch beam and a six-foot draft. Her seven water cannons have a capacity of 10,000 gallons per minute. The vessel was one of the first on the West Coast [...]
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The fireboat Duwamish reigned as the most powerful fireboat in the United States several times over her 75-year working life. Built in 1909 in Seattle for the Seattle Fire Department, she was equipped with three American LaFrance steam piston pumps rated at a capacity of 3,000 gallons per minute each. After an upgrade in 1949, [...]
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