Duwamish (fireboat)
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Template:Infobox ship imageTemplate:Infobox ship careerTemplate:Infobox ship characteristicsTemplate:Infobox NRHPDuwamish is a retired fireboat in the United States.<ref name="nhlsum">Template:Cite web</ref> She is the second oldest vessel designed to fight fires in the US, after Edward M. Cotter, in Buffalo, New York.<ref name="NpsDuwamish1988">Template:Cite web</ref>
Career
Duwamish was built in 1909 for the Seattle Fire Department in Richmond Beach, Washington, just north of Seattle.<ref name="NpsShipsToVisit"> Template:Cite web</ref> She was powered by "double vertical (compound) marine steam engines" capable of driving her at Template:Convert.<ref name="NpsDuwamish1988" /> She was equipped with three American LaFrance steam piston pumps rated at a capacity of Template:Convert each. She was originally designed to ram and sink burning wooden vessels, as a last resort, and was equipped with a ram bow for doing so.
On July 30, 1914, Duwamish was involved in fighting the fire on the Grand Trunk Pacific dock. In the 1930s, as a cost-saving measure, the Seattle City Council directed that Duwamish be used as a tug to push the city's garbage scow.<ref name="Newell"> Template:Cite book</ref>
After an upgrade in 1949, the pumps delivered a total of Template:Convert.<ref name="Historic">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="DuwamishTheBoat">Template:Cite web</ref> This capacity was only exceeded in 2003 by the Los Angeles Fire Department's Warner Lawrence, which delivers Template:Convert.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Duwamish is Template:Convert long with a Template:Convert beam and a Template:Convert draft.<ref name="NpsShipsToVisit" /> Her registered gross tonnage is Template:Convert.
Current status
Retired in 1985, Duwamish was purchased by the Puget Sound Fireboat Foundation.<ref> Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="SeattleTimes2006-08-18"> Template:Cite news</ref> She is permanently moored at the Historic Ships Wharf near the Museum of History & Industry at South Lake Union Park in Seattle.<ref name="SeattleTimes2012-12-29"> Template:Cite news</ref> Visitors may board the vessel when volunteer staff is available.<ref name="SeattleTimes2006-08-18" />
Duwamish was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.<ref name="nhlsum" /><ref name="nrhpinv2">
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See also
- Historic preservation
- Duwamish Native American tribe
- Duwamish River
- Sea Scouting (Boy Scouts of America)
References
External links
- Biography of Eugene L. McAllaster, designer of Duwamish.
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- Fireboats in Seattle, Washington
- Firefighting museums in the United States
- Historic American Engineering Record in Washington (state)
- Museum ships in Washington (state)
- Museums in Seattle
- National Register of Historic Places in Seattle
- National Historic Landmarks in Washington (state)
- Propeller-driven steamboats of Washington (state)
- Ships on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
- Steam tugs of Washington (state)
- South Lake Union, Seattle