The Fire Department of New York operated the fireboat Smoke II from 1958 to 2008.[1]
She was built in Louisiana, by Equitable Equipment.[2][3]
She was smaller than the dozen or so fireboats in the FDNY's fleet, and was originally built to serve as a command vessel for senior firefighters—called a "tender" by the FDNY.[1] In later years she was employed as a fireboat, but her modest pumping capacity of just 2,000 gallons per minute limited her usefulness.
With other New York City fireboats, her pumps provided water pressure for fire-fighting after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, which broke all the nearby watermains.[4]
In 2008 she was retired and became an artificial reef.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Smoke II Retires from FDNY Marine Fleet". FDNY. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ^ The Waterways Journal, Volume 72, Issues 1-26. D. T. Wright publishing. 1958. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
- ^ Paul Hashagen (2002). Fire Department, City of New York. Turner Publishing Company. p. 85. ISBN 9781563118326. Retrieved 2016-03-05.
- ^ Special Report: Fireboats; Then and Now. FEMA. p. 19. Retrieved March 5, 2016.