Fireboats of New York City
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. These smaller boats require smaller crews, and the crews themselves require less training. Like many other cities, the FDNY operates a fleet with a smaller number of large fireboats, supplemented by a number of unnamed boats in the 10 meter range.
| image | name | commissioned | retired | dimensions (ft) | pumping capacity (gpm) |
notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| William F. Havemeyer | 1875 | 1901 | 106 × 22 × 10 | 6,000 | ||
| Zophar Mills | 1882 | 1934 | 120 × 25 × 12 | 6,000 | ||
| Seth Low | 1885 | 1917 | 99 × 24 × 9 | 3,500 | Brooklyn Fire Department | |
| The New Yorker | 1890 | 1931 | 125 × 26 × 12 | 13,000 | ||
| David A. Boody | 1892 | 1914 | 105 × 23 × 7 | 6,500 | ||
| William L. Strong | 1898 | 1948 | 100 × 24 × 12.6 | 6,500 | ||
| Robert A. van Wyck | 1898 | |||||
| Abram S. Hewitt | 1903 | 1958 | 117 × 25 × 10.5 | 7,000 | ||
| George B. McClellan | 1904 | 1954 | 117 × 24 × 9.5 | 7,000 | ||
| James Duane | 1908 | 1959 | 132 × 28 × 10 | 9,000 | ||
| Thomas Willett | 1908 | 1959 | 132 × 28 × 10 | 9,000 | ||
| Cornelius W. Lawrence | 1908 | 1955 | 104.5 × 23.5 × 9 | 7,000 | ||
| Velox | 1907 | 1922 | 68 × 11.5 × 7 | |||
| William J. Gaynor | 1914 | 1961 | 118 × 25 × 13.4 | 7,000 | ||
| John Purroy Mitchel | 1921 | 1966 | 132 × 27 × 10 | 9,000 | ||
| Captain Connell | 1922 | 1938 | 56.5 × 12 × 6.5 | |||
| John J. Harvey | 1931 | 1999 | 130 × 28 × 9 | 18,000 | now a private excursion vessel | |
| Fire Fighter | 1938 | 1999 | 134 × 32 × 9 | 20,000 | Now a museum ship | |
| Smoke | 1938 | 1955 | 53 × 7 × 3.5 | |||
| John D. Mc Kean | 1954 | 2010 | 129 × 30 × 9 | 19,000 | held in retired status | |
| H. Sylvia A. H. G. Wilks | 1958 | 1972 | 105.5 × 27 × 9 | 8,000 | ||
| Harry M. Archer M. D. | 1958 | 1994 | 105.5 × 27 × 9 | 8,000 | ||
| Smoke II | 1958 | 2008 | 52 × 14 × 4 | 2,000 | ||
| Senator Robert F. Wagner | 1959 | 1993 | 105.5 × 27 × 9 | 8,000 | ||
| Governor Alfred E. Smith | 1961 | 2015 | 105.5 × 27 × 9 | 8,000 | ||
| John H. Glenn, Jr. | 1962 | 1977 | 70 × 21 × 5 | 5,000 | Now serving in Washington DC | |
| John P. Devaney | 1992 | 1994 | 70 × 19 × 5'4" | 7,075 | named after John P. Devaney, a firefighter who died in the line of duty | |
| Alfred E. Ronaldson | 1992 | 1994 | 70 × 19 × 5'4" | 7,075 | named after Alfred E. Ronaldson, a firefighter who died in the line of duty | |
| Kevin C. Kane | 1992 | 2013 | 52 × 16 × 4.5 | 6,500 | auctioned off after receiving damage during Hurricane Sandy. | |
| Bravest | 2011 | - | 64 × 17 × 3'4" | 6,000 | fastest fireboat of its size | |
| Fire Fighter II | 2010 | - | 140 × 36 × 9 | 50,000 | one of the largest fireboats in North America | |
| Three Forty Three | 2010 | - | 140 × 36 × 9 | 50,000 | one of the largest fireboats in North America | |
| William M. Feehan | 2015 | - | 66 × 18 × 3 | 8,000 | 40 knots (74 km/h) |