Duwamish (fireboat)
{{Short description|Fireboat}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=Duwamish fire boat.jpg |Ship caption=Duwamish fireboat at the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, Seattle }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United States |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United States|cival}} |Ship name=Duwamish |Ship owner= |Ship operator= |Ship registry= |Ship route= |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=Richmond Beach Shipbuilding Co. |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number= |Ship way number= |Ship laid down= |Ship launched=1909 |Ship completed= |Ship christened= |Ship acquired= |Ship maiden voyage= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service=1985 |Ship identification= |Ship fate= |Ship status=Museum ship |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship type= |Ship tonnage=322 tons (gross) |Ship displacement= |Ship length={{convert|120|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|28|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship height= |Ship draught= |Ship draft= |Ship depth={{convert|9.6|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship decks= |Ship deck clearance= |Ship ramps= |Ship ice class= |Ship sail plan= |Ship power=Compound marine steam engines |Ship propulsion= |Ship speed={{convert|10.5|kn}} |Ship capacity= |Ship crew= |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox NRHP |embed=yes |name=Duwamish (fireboat) |nrhp_type=nhl |image=Originally the Seattle fireboat Duwamish was built with a 'ram' bow.jpg |image_size=300 |caption=Originally the Seattle fireboat Duwamish was built with a ram bow. |coordinates = {{coord|47.62818 |
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Duwamish is a retired fireboat in the United States.{{cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=2076&ResourceType=Structure|title=DUWAMISH (Fireboat)|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service |access-date=2012-08-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926104303/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=2076&ResourceType=Structure|archive-date=2012-09-26|url-status=dead}} She is the second oldest vessel designed to fight fires in the US, after Edward M. Cotter, in Buffalo, New York.{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/maritime/nhl/duwamish.htm|title=Duwamish Fireboat: National Historic Landmark Study|publisher=National Park Service|year=1988|first=James P.|last=Delgado|author-link=James P. Delgado |access-date=2012-08-29}}
Career
Duwamish was built in 1909 for the Seattle Fire Department in Richmond Beach, Washington, just north of Seattle.
{{cite web
|url=http://www.nps.gov/maritime/ships/lists/stat_2pa.htm
|title=National Park Service - Maritime Heritage Program: HISTORIC SHIPS TO VISIT
|publisher=National Park Service
|date=2006-08-17
|access-date=2012-08-29
}} She was powered by "double vertical (compound) marine steam engines" capable of driving her at {{convert|10.5|kn}}. She was equipped with three American LaFrance steam piston pumps rated at a capacity of {{convert|3000|USgal/min|3}} 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.
{{cite book
|last=Newell
|first=Robert G.
|title=Pacific Tugboats
|publisher=Superior Publishing
|location=Seattle
|year=1957
}}
After an upgrade in 1949, the pumps delivered a total of {{convert|22800|USgal/min|3}}.{{cite web
|url=http://www.fireboatduwamish.org/parent/history.htm
|title=Fireboat Duwamish history
|access-date=2012-08-29
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301232735/http://www.fireboatduwamish.org/parent/history.htm
|archive-date=2012-03-01
|url-status=usurped
|url=http://www.fireboatduwamish.org/parent/theboat.htm
|title=Fireboat Duwamish the boat
|access-date=2012-08-29
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301232752/http://www.fireboatduwamish.org/parent/theboat.htm
|archive-date=2012-03-01
|url-status=usurped
}} This capacity was only exceeded in 2003 by the Los Angeles Fire Department's Warner Lawrence, which delivers {{convert|38000|USgal/min|3}}.{{Cite web |title=Los Angeles Fire Boat No. 2, The Warner L. Lawrence |url=http://lafire.com/fire_boats/FireBoat-02_Lawrence.htm |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=lafire.com}}
Duwamish is {{convert|120|ft|1}} long with a {{convert|28|ft|1|adj=on}} beam and a {{convert|9.6|ft|1|adj=on}} draft. Her registered gross tonnage is {{convert|322|ST|t|lk=out}}.
Current status
Retired in 1985, Duwamish was purchased by the Puget Sound Fireboat Foundation.
{{cite web
|url=http://www.fireboatduwamish.org/
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010223212513/http://www.fireboatduwamish.org/
|url-status=usurped
|archive-date=February 23, 2001
|title=Puget Sound Fireboat Foundation
|access-date=2012-08-29
{{cite news
|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003207463_duwamish18m.html
|title=A new life for an old boat?
|newspaper=Seattle Times
|date=18 August 2006
|first=Charlotte
|last=Hsu
|access-date=2012-08-29
}} She is permanently moored at the Historic Ships Wharf near the Museum of History & Industry at South Lake Union Park in Seattle.
{{cite news
|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-313587345.html
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117202849/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-313587345.html
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=17 November 2018
|title=History afloat outside MOHAI
|newspaper=Seattle Times
|date=29 December 2012
|first=Jack
|last=Broom
|access-date=2013-01-29
}} Visitors may board the vessel when volunteer staff is available.
Duwamish was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989.
{{cite web
|url={{NHLS url|id=89001448}}
|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Duwamish / Fireboat Duwamish
|date=9 July 1988
|format=pdf
|first=James P.
|last=Delgado
|author-link=James P. Delgado
|publisher=National Park Service
|access-date=2009-06-22
}} and
{{cite web
|url={{NHLS url|id=89001448|photos=y}}
|title=Accompanying 10 photos, exterior and interior, from 1988 and 1929
|access-date=2012-08-29
}}
She is a city landmark.{{citation needed|date=March 2008}}
See also
- Historic preservation
- Duwamish Native American tribe
- Duwamish River
- Sea Scouting (Boy Scouts of America)
References
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External links
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- [http://rogue-publishing.com/McAllaster.html Biography of Eugene L. McAllaster], designer of Duwamish.
- {{HAER |survey=WA-174 |id=wa0746 |title=Fireboat DUWAMISH, South Lake Union Pier, Seattle, King County, WA |photos=27 |color=2 |data=5 |cap=4}}
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