Fireboats of Milwaukee
As a significant Great Lakes port there has been a need for fireboats in Milwaukee.[1]
| image | name | entered service |
retired | notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Cataract | 1889 | 1903 | |
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fireboat 17 | 1893 | 1930 | |
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fireboat 23 | 1897 | 1922 | |
| fireboat 15 | 1903 | 1952 | ||
| fireboat 29 | 1906 | 1948 | ||
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Torrent | 1922 | 1949 | Presviously served a private railroad in Two Harbors, Minnesota[3] |
| Deluge | 1949 | 1984 | [4][5][6][7] | |
| Roamer | 1963 | 1984 | Initially powered by waterjets, her propulsion had to be converted to conventional propellers.[8] | |
| fireboat 1 | 1984 | 1993 | This was a military surplus amphibious truck | |
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Fireboat 1 | 2007 | Metalcraft Marine 36' fireboat |
References
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Michael Horne (2018-02-22). "Third Ward Firehouse Conversion Approved: 1915 riverfront building at foot of Water Street Bridge to become three unit "family retreat."". Urban Milwaukee. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
The old building served as the headquarters of the city's water-borne fire fighting fleet, and for other municipal functions. Its final use was as a lifeboat station in 1984.
- ^ "Milwaukee Fireboat #23 - August F. Janssen". 2007. Archived from the original on 2016-09-17.
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Frank Alexander King (1972). The Missabe Road: The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816640836. Retrieved 2016-08-29.
The other two, the William A. McGonagle and the Torrent, were somewhat unusual in that they were equipped for firefighting.
- ^ George Archer (1949-04-01). "Deluge Is Launched at Bay City, Mich. Is Duly Christened and Will Be Ready in May". The Milwaukee Journal. p. 25. Retrieved 2012-08-24.
- ^ Mary Ann Cahill (1978-08-08). "Fireboat System Something Special". The Milwaukee Journal. p. 40. Retrieved 2012-08-24.
- ^ Paul Bargren (1984-02-09). "Old city fireboat retires in October". The Milwaukee Journal. p. 12. Retrieved 2012-08-24.
- ^ Bruce Gill (1986-03-08). "Firefighter boat called unsafe by union chief". The Milwaukee Sentinel. p. 3. Retrieved 2012-08-24.
- ^ Wayne Mutza (2005). Milwaukee Fire Department. Arcadia Publishing. p. 105. ISBN 9780738534343. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
