| 词条 | Fire Fighter (fireboat) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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|name=Merchant Marine Gallant Ship Citation |image2= |caption2=Merchant Marine Gallant Ship Citation Ribbon |awarded_by=United States Maritime Administration |type= |eligibility= |for=Actions on May 30th, 1973 following the collision of the SS Esso Brussels and SS Sea Witch and the rescue of 31 trapped crew from life-threatening fire aboard the SS Sea Witch. |campaign= |status= |description= |established= |first_award= |last_award= |total= |posthumous= |recipients= |individual= |higher= |same= |lower= |image= |caption=Gallant Ship Plaque }}Fire Fighter is a fireboat which served the New York City Fire Department from 1938 through 2010, serving with Marine Companies 1, 8 & 9 during her career. The most powerful diesel-electric fireboat in terms of pumping capacity when built in 1938, the Fire Fighter fought more than 50 major fires during her career, including fires aboard the SS Normandie in 1942, the 1973 collision of the Esso Brussels and SS Sea Witch and the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.[3] FDNY Service HistoryAuthorized for construction in early 1937 by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia based on designs submitted by noted naval architect William Francis Gibbs and his firm Gibbs & Cox, the Fire Fighter was laid down at United Shipyards as Hull #856 and was christened and launched on August 28, 1938 by Miss Eleanor Grace Flanagan. After fitting out and sea trials, the Fire Fighter officially entered service with the New York City Fire Department on at 0900hrs on November 16, 1938 with Engine 57 at Pier 1 in the Battery, which would later be organized as Marine Unit 1. Serving from this post through the mid-1960s, Fire Fighter would respond to two of her most famous actions; the fire and capsizing of the SS Normandie in 1942 and the fire aboard the ammunition-laden SS El Estero in 1943, among dozens of other vessel and pier fires across New York Harbor. Shifting with the majority of commercial steamship line freight operations from Manhattan to the Brooklyn waterfront, Fire Fighter served with Marine Unit 8 and Engine 223 at the 37th Street Pier through 1967 before shifting once again to the Homeport Pier in Stapleton where she joined Marine Unit 9, an assignment which made her the first-due marine firefighting asset at the heavily trafficked Narrows of lower New York Harbor and throughout the tight confines of both the Arthur Kill and Kill van Kull. With both waterways already heavily utilized by marine traffic calling ports on the Chemical Coast, the rise of both the Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal and Howland Hook Marine Terminal saw an increasing number of container ships transiting the same waters. These conditions led to several major vessel collisions and shoreside fires during her tenure in Staten Island, but the 1973 collision of SS Esso Brussels and SS Sea Witch would prove to be the largest fires she would ever fight single-handedly. For her and her crews' part in the response, firefighting and rescue of 31 surviving crewmen from the burning SS Sea Witch, the Fire Fighter was named a Gallant Ship[2] and her crew received the American Merchant Marine Seamanship Trophy. To date, Fire Fighter remains the only fireboat to have received this award. The boat, as Firefighter, was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1989.[3][4] On September 11, 2001, Fire Fighter along with the rest of the FDNY Marine Units, responded to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and took up a station at the foot of Albany Street in Battery Park City and began pumping at her maximum capacity to supply water to landside units fighting fires in the still-standing towers. Following the collapse of both buildings and resultant failure of the majority of the water mains serving lower Manhattan, Fire Fighter and the rest of the FDNY Marine Units became the sole source of water for firefighting efforts at Ground Zero, a duty which Fire Fighter maintained for a period of three weeks until sufficient repairs were completed on landside water mains to permit her release from what had become her longest emergency response call. Following a shipyard period in 2003 to rebuild her worn-out engines the Fire Fighter resumed her post and continued to respond to marine emergencies, including a gasoline barge explosion in Port Mobile, Staten Island in February 2003 and to the Crash of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River in 2009. Replaced in frontline service by the fireboat Fire Fighter II.[5] in 2010 at Marine Unit 9, the Fire Fighter was placed into reserve status at the former Brooklyn Navy Yard where she remained in FDNY custody until October 15, 2012. Transferred on that date to the ownership of non-profit Fireboat Fire Fighter Museum, the Fire Fighter is now operated by an all-volunteer group dedicated to preserving the historic fireboat in running condition as a museum ship, befitting her over 70 years of service to the people and mariners of New York City and New York Harbor. As a museum shipUnder the stewardship of the Museum, the Fire Fighter found a home in Greenport, New York on Long Island's North Fork and relocated to the village from the Brooklyn Navy Yard in February 2013. Eventually shifting to the village's commercial pier in accordance with their contractual agreement with the village, the museum has continued to grow in popularity and was granted 501c3 status by the IRS in October 2013 as a tax-exempt non-profit organization. The Museum was awarded a National Park Service Maritime Heritage Grant in 2014 to pursue hull upkeep and preventative maintenance shipyard work.[6] Gathering matching funds for the National Park Service grant lasted through December 2016,[9] when the Fire Fighter reported to Goodison Shipyard in Kingston, Rhode Island for four months of shipyard work, overhaul and hull inspection.[10] Completed in April 2017, Fire Fighter returned to Greenport, New York in her as-built, late 1930 FDNY color scheme, with a black hull, white topsides and buff smokestack, and with all topside brass returned to its bare metal appearance. Photo gallery{{multiple image| align = center | direction = horizontal | header = | header_align = left/right/center | header_background = | footer | footer_align = left/right/center | footer_background = | width = | image1 = Fireboat Firefighter Engine Room.jpg | width1 = 110 | caption1 = Fire Fighter's engineering space containing her four DeLaval 5,000gpm fire pumps, twin 16-cylinder 1500HP main engines and electric propulsion motors. | image2 = Fireboat Firefighter - One of Fireboat Firefighter 's smaller 2,000gpm monitors. -.JPG | width2 = 110 | caption2 = One of Fire Fighter's smaller 2,000gpm monitors, located on her fore Portside top deck. | image3 = Fireboat Firefighter 's water monitors during September, 2014 Greenport Water Display.jpg | width3 = 110 | caption3 = Fire Fighter 's water monitors in operation | image4 = Fireboat Firefighter 's Engine Room Telegraph.JPG | width4 = 110 | caption4 = Fire Fighter's original 1938 engine order telegraph. | image5 = Pyrometer from Fireboat Firefighter 's Engine Room.jpg | width5 = 110 | caption5 = Pyrometer from Fire Fighter's Engine Room | image6 = Builder's Plate from FDNY Fireboat Firefighter.jpg | width6 = 110 | caption6 = Fire Fighter's Builder's Plate | image7 = One of four two-stage centrifugal DeLaval Marine Fire Pumps on Fireboat Firefighter.jpg | width7 = 110 | caption7 = One of four 5,000gpm two-stage centrifugal DeLaval Marine Fire Pumps. | image8 = Nameplate for one of Fireboat Firefighter 's 600V DC Marine Motors.jpg | width8 = 110 | caption8 = Builder's plate for one Fire Fighter's Westinghouse Electric motors. | image9 = Engineer's console in Fireboat Firefighter 's Engine Room, used to control almost the entirety of the ship..jpg | width9 = 110 | caption9 = Chief Marine Engineer's control console. | image10 = Port engine of Fireboat Firefighter 's installed power system, she has Twin V16 1500HP Winton Diesel Engines of which power a diesel-electric system.jpg | width10 = 110 | caption10 = Port side 16-cylinder GM/Winton Diesel Engine. }}{{Clear}} References1. ^{{NRISref|2007a}} [7][8]2. ^{{cite book|last=Kimmerly|first=history from 1865-1999 written by Paul Hashagen ; updated history from 2000-2002 compiled by Janet Kimmerly; book edited by Janet|title=Fire Department, City of New York|year=2002|publisher=Turner Pub. Co.|location=Paducah, Ky.|isbn=9781563118326|page=142|edition=Rev.}} 3. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=2075&ResourceType=Structure|title=Firefighter (Fireboat)|date=2007-09-14|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service}} 4. ^1 {{Cite journal|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Firefighter|url={{NHLS url|id=89001447}} |format=pdf|author=James P. Delgado|date=January 20, 1989|publisher=National Park Service}} and {{NHLS url|id=89001447|title=Accompanying 8 photos from 1939, 1942, and 1988|photos=y}} {{small|(1.26 MB)}} 5. ^NYFD.com 6. ^http://www.nps.gov/maritime/grants/recipients.htm#NY 7. ^1 {{cite news | url = http://www.eastendbeacon.com/2017/04/03/americas-fireboat-gets-a-makeover/| title = America’s Fireboat Gets a Makeover| publisher = East End Beacon| author = Beth Young| date = 2017-04-03| page = | location = | archiveurl = | archivedate = | accessdate = 2017-04-04| deadurl = No | quote = But by the time you read this, Fire Fighter will soon be on its way back to its home berth with a fresh new coat of paint, after a winter spent undergoing a major overhaul at Goodison Shipyards in Rhode Island.}} 8. ^1 {{cite news | url = https://suffolktimes.timesreview.com/2016/12/72275/fireboat-in-greenport-receives-loan-to-get-project-moving/| title = Loan allows Fire Fighter to relocate to shipyard for possible repairs| publisher = Suffolk Times| author = Krysten Massa| date = 2016-12-16| page = | location = | archiveurl = | archivedate = | accessdate = 2016-12-17| deadurl = No | quote = The vessel’s revitalization has been at a standstill because the museum needed to move the Fire Fighter to a shipyard to have the hull surveyed for possible repairs. Mr. Ritchie called this process the first phase and the “most crucial” part of the project.}} }} External links{{Commons category|Fire Fighter (ship, 1938)}}
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