David A. Boody (fireboat)

{{Short description|Former New York City fireboat (from 1892 to 1914)}}

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The David A. Boody was a fireboat operated on the North River, the lower portion of the Hudson River, within New York state.

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| quote = The second fireboat of the Brooklyn Department was the DAVID A. BOODY, built in 1892. She was a wooden boat with crews' quarters aboard and was 106 ft, in length with a 23 ft. beam and 7 ft. draught.

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She was built and commissioned in 1892{{Cite news|date=November 30, 1892|title=Stopped: Work on the New Fire Department Building|work=The Standard Union|url=http://newspapers.com/clip/93528069/the-standard-union/}} for the Brooklyn Fire Department and was operated by the BFD until Brooklyn's fleet was merged with that of nearby New York City.

She was a wooden-hulled steam powered vessel, {{convert|106|ft|m}} long, {{convert|23|ft|m}} wide, and {{convert|7|ft|m}} deep. Her pumps could project 6,500 gallons per minute.

The boat was first called to action on {{Start date|1892|12|17}}, in response to a large fire at a cotton warehouse in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood. Upon arrival, she assisted the {{ship||Seth Low|fireboat|2}} in extinguishing the blaze.{{Cite news |date=December 17, 1892 |title=In the River - Fifteen Firemen Seek Safety From Falling Walls |work=The Standard Union |url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93528669/the-standard-union/}}

On October 22, 1905, the David Boody helped fight a fire that broke out aboard the lighter Joseph Codringham{{'}}s cargo of barrels of oil. While other fireboats fought the fire on the lighter itself, the David Boody fought the burning oil that had spilled onto the river.{{Cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1905/10/22/archives/river-afire-blazing-oil-from-a-lighter-threatens-ferryboats-and.html |title=River Afire. |date=1905-10-22 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2019-11-13 |issn=0362-4331}}

On July 25, 1909, David A. Boody and {{ship||Abram S. Hewitt|fireboat|2}} fought a cargo fire aboard the Ward Line steamship {{SS|Vigilancia||2}}. Seth Low relieved Abram S. Hewitt before the fire was extinguished.{{cite news |title=Vigilancia burns and sinks at pier |url-access=subscription |newspaper=The New York Times |date=26 July 1909 |page=1 |access-date=26 March 2024 |via=Times Machine |url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1909/07/26/101891515.html?pageNumber=1}}{{cite news |url= https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1909-07-26/ed-1/seq-1/ |title=Fire sinks Ward liner |newspaper=New-York Tribune |date=26 July 1909 |page=1 |via=Library of Congress |access-date=26 March 2024}}

She was retired in 1914 as a cost-saving measure.{{Cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1914/06/29/archives/adamson-reduces-expenses-by-700000-cuts-down-fire-companies-and.html |title=Adamson Redues Expenses by $700,000 |date=1914-06-29 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2019-11-13 |issn=0362-4331}}