Fireboats of Long Beach, California

The Long Beach Fire Department of the city of Long Beach, California owns and operates Fireboats in Long Beach, providing fire protection and rescue services for the Port of Long Beach and the marina and beach areas of the city of 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] The cities of Los Angeles and Long Beach have a mutual aid arrangement where one will loan fireboats to the other in case of need.

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Charles S. Windham 1942
  • The city's first fireboat.[3]
Fireboat 1 1954
  • Fireboat 1, Long Beach's second fireboat.[4]
Fireboat 2 1954
  • Fireboat 2, Long Beach's third fireboat.[4]
 Challenger 1987
  • The Los Angeles Times reported that the Challenger and Liberty began to show maintenance problems due to poor contrsturction within two years of their delivery.[2]
  • Capable of pumping 10,000 Gallons per minute.[2]
Liberty 1987
  • The Liberty had the same corrosion problems as her sister ship, the Challenger, and by September 1988 the Long Beach Harbour Commission had to allocate an addition $883,000 to repair the vessels.[5]
Protector 2014
  • Commissioned on June 8, 2016.[6]
  • Designed to mount water cannons capable of fighting fires on the largest modern container ships.[1][7]
Vigilance 2015
  • A sister ship to the Fireboat 20 will be commissioned in late 2014 or 2015.[1][7]

Workboat magazine reported, on June 14, 2017, that Long Beach planned to spend $100 USD to construct two new firestations for its two new fireboats.[8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Powerful fireboat christened at Foss Maritime". Marine Log. 2014-04-15. Archived from the original on 2014-05-16. Fireboat 20 and its sister are replacements for two older fireboats, the Liberty and Challenger.
  2. 1 2 3 Chris Woodyard (1988-04-27). "2 Long Beach Fireboats Gathering Rust". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2012-02-04. 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.
  3. ↑ Glen Goodrich (2005). Long Beach Fire Department: Images of America. Arcadia Publishing. p. 55. ISBN 9780738530017. 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. 1 2 Erin Kurinsky. "INVENTORY OF THE LONG BEACH FIREMAN'S HISTORICAL MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION, 1840-1971, bulk 1906-1971" (pdf). University of California. p. 8,9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-05-17.
  5. ↑ Chris Woodyard (1988-09-29). "Long Beach to Spend $883,000 to Save 2 Fireboats". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2014-05-16. 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.
  6. ↑ Emily Thornton (2016-06-05). "Long Beach Fire Department Debuts New Boat". Long Beach Gazette. Retrieved 2016-06-06. The vessel, called “Protector,” has its dedication from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, June 8, at the Port of Long Beach Joint Command and Control Center. The ceremony isn’t public, port media relations lead Lee Peterson said.
  7. 1 2 "Port Welcomes Protector, The World’s Most Advanced Fireboat". Everything Long Beach. 2016-06-09. Retrieved 2016-10-15. Protector and a second, still-under-construction boat, “Vigilance,” will replace the Port’s fireboats “Challenger” and “Liberty,” which began service in the late 1980s and were designed in an era of vessels carrying 4,500 containers. The biggest vessels calling in Long Beach now have a capacity of 18,000 containers, with even larger ships coming in the future.
  8. ↑ Kirk Moore (2017-06-14). "Port of Long Beach to build two new fireboat stations". Workboat magazine. Retrieved 2017-06-15.


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