Firefighter
Address:
FDNY Marine Co. 9
St. George Terminal, Slip 7
Staten Island
Category: Historic Ships
Active duty.
Built: 1938 United Shipyards, NY
Length: 134, Beam 32, Draft-9 Hull: STEEL
Designation: National Historic Landmark
Description: Fire Fighter cost $983,000, can do 15 knots and has water guns with output of 20,000 gallons per minute. Designed by William F. Gibbs, she was New York’s first diesel electric boat and received the “Gallant Ship Award” for rescuing 30 seamen from fire aboard the Esso Brussels and Sea Witch collision in the harbor in 1972.
