Fire Boat No. 1 in its dry berth.

Fireboat No. 1 was built in 1929 for the Port of Tacoma, Washington by the Coastline Shipbuilding Company of Tacoma for US$148,000. She is 96 feet, six inches (29.4 m) long with a 21-foot, six-inch (6.5 m) beam and a six-foot (1.8 m) draft. Her seven water cannons have a capacity of 10,000 gallons per minute (37,800 lpm). The vessel is the only fireboat in U.S. history to protect a major port by itself for more than half a century. 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Old Town neighborhood in Tacoma, with Mount Rainier in background Nickname: The City of Destiny Location of Tacoma in Pierce County and Washington State County Pierce Mayor Bill Baarsma (NP) Area    - City 162. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation rate 3. ... Beam may refer to: Look up beam in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The word draft (also draught) has multiple meanings: The draft is a synonym for conscription or peacetime national service. ... A water cannon is a device that shoots a high-pressure stream of water. ... The fireboat Guardian was a gift of survivors of the Loma Prieta earthquake to supplement San Franciscos fireboat Phoenix. ... United States is the current Good Article Collaboration of the week! Please help to improve this article to the highest of standards. ... Seaport, a painting by Claude Lorrain, 1638 The Port of Wellington at night. ...

Fire Boat No. 1

After 54 years of service in waterfront fire protection, harbor security patrols, search and rescue missions, and water pollution control, Fireboat No. 1 was put up on on a permanent dry berth at a public beach near Tacoma’s Old Town neighborhood. She is one of only five fireboats designated as a National Historic Landmark. Visitors are able to walk around her exterior, but her interior is closed to the public. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1200x800, 333 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Tacoma, Washington Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1200x800, 333 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Tacoma, Washington Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... Waterfront, by definition is the land alongside a body of water, or the dockland district of a town. ... A harbor or harbour (see spelling differences), or haven, is a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored. ... Search and Rescue (acronym SAR) is an operation mounted by emergency services, often well-trained volunteers, to find someone believed to be in distress, lost, sick or injured either in a remote or difficult to access area, such as mountains, desert or forest (Wilderness search and rescue), or at sea... Water pollution Water pollution is a large set of adverse effects upon water bodies (lakes, rivers, oceans, groundwater) caused by human activities. ... USS Constitution. ...

See also

• Historic preservation
• National Historic Landmark

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External links

• Maritime Heritage Network