Fireboats of Long Beach, California
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As a major port, Long Beach, California authorities have owned and operated Fireboats in Long Beach.[1] Although administered separately the port facilities of Los Angeles and Long Beach are adjacent, and, together, form one of the largest container ports in the world.[2] Los Angeles and Long Beach have an arrangement where one port will loan fireboats to the other, in case of need.
image | name | launched | notes |
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Charles S. Windham | 1942 |
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Fireboat 1 | 1954 |
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Fireboat 2 | 1954 |
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Challenger | 1987 |
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Liberty | 1987 |
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Protector | 2014 | ||
Vigilance | 2015 |
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Workboat magazine reported, on June 14, 2017, that Long Beach planned to spend $100 million USD to construct two new firestations for its two new fireboats.[9]
See also
- Fireboats of Baltimore
- Fireboats of Boston
- Fireboats of Chicago
- Fireboats of Detroit
- Fireboats of Houston
- Fireboats of Jacksonville, Florida
- Fireboats of New Orleans
- Fireboats of New York City
- Fireboats of Philadelphia
- Fireboats of San Diego
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Powerful fireboat christened at Foss Maritime". Marine Log. 2014-04-15. Archived from the original on 2014-05-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20140516125623/http://www.marinelog.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=6711:powerful-fireboat-christened-at-foss-maritime&Itemid=229. "Fireboat 20 and its sister are replacements for two older fireboats, the Liberty and Challenger."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chris Woodyard (1988-04-27). "2 Long Beach Fireboats Gathering Rust". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2012-02-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20120204125502/http://articles.latimes.com/1988-04-27/local/me-1822_1_long-beach. Retrieved 2014-05-16. "After spending $4.4 million for two state-of-the-art fireboats, the Port of Long Beach is struggling to keep the vessels from becoming floating rust buckets."
- ↑ Glen Goodrich (2005). Long Beach Fire Department: Images of America. Arcadia Publishing. p. 55. ISBN 9780738530017. http://books.google.ca/books?id=E5vBxkzgbVwC&pg=PA55&dq=fireboat+%22long+beach%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Crt3U6SoCsKSyATO-4CgDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=fireboat%20%22long%20beach%22&f=false. Retrieved 2014-05-17. "In 1942, the City of Long Beach commissioned the building of its first fireboat, the Charles S. Windham. The Windham was built by Wilmington Boats Works and financed by the Harbor Department."
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Erin Kurinsky. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140517225531/http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/csudh/spcoll/longbeachfiredepartmentead.pdf "INVENTORY OF THE LONG BEACH FIREMAN'S HISTORICAL MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION, 1840-1971, bulk 1906-1971"] (pdf). University of California. p. 8,9. Archived from the original on 2014-05-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20140517225531/http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/csudh/spcoll/longbeachfiredepartmentead.pdf.
- ↑ Chris Woodyard (1988-09-29). "Long Beach to Spend $883,000 to Save 2 Fireboats". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2012-05-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20140516170354/http://articles.latimes.com/1988-09-29/news/hl-5847_1_long-beach-boats. Retrieved 2014-05-16. "The commission is paying $653,000, the largest chunk of the funds, to a Terminal Island boatyard to correct design and construction deficiencies and to fix corrosion damage on the twin $2.2-million Challenger and Liberty, which were delivered to the city within the past two years."
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