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John D. McKean is a fireboat that served the New York City Fire Department as Marine Company 1. [3] She is named after John D. Mckean, who died in a 1953 steam explosion while trying to save a predecessor fireboat, the George B. McClellan .
John J. Harvey is a fireboat formerly of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) in New York City, famed for returning to service following the September 11, 2001 attacks. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She is one of the most powerful fireboats ever built, capable of pumping up to 18,000 gallons of water a minute.
From 1955-2010, the John D. McKean Fireboat responded to many of New York City's most notable incidents, including 9/11 and the Miracle on the Hudson.
Three Forty Three is a Ranger 4200-class fireboat that serves the New York City Fire Department as marine company 1. [2] Designed by Robert Allan Ltd. and built to replace the 1954 John D. McKean . It was commissioned at 0900 hours on September 11, 2010, exactly nine years after the 2001 terrorist attacks .
For much of the late 19th and early 20th century, New York City maintained a fleet of ten fireboats. In recent decades technology has improved to where smaller boats can provide the pumping capacity that required a large boat in the past. [1] These smaller boats require smaller crews, and the crews themselves require less training.
Once aboard the fireboat, the man was able to drift a short distance into the Hudson River, police said, but quickly got stu Man arrested for allegedly taking a decommissioned NYC fireboat for an ...
The vessel served the New York City Fire Department for her first fifteen years before being sold to the District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department in 1977. [3] When she was built, she was both faster than her older fleet-mates, and had a shallower draft, making her well-suited to be stationed in a region of the Hudson ...
John Purroy Mitchel was a New York City Fire Department fireboat. [1] [2] She was named after former mayor of New York City John Purroy Mitchel. Grace Drennan, niece of Fire Commissioner Thomas J. Drennan, played a ceremonial role in the boat's launch on July 24, 1921. Her launch was also attended by current mayor John Francis Hylan.