Fireboats of Milwaukee
As a significant Great Lakes port there has been a need for fireboats in Milwaukee.
| class="wikitable sortable" | ||||
| image || name || entered service || retired || notes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100px | Cataract | 1889 | 1903 | |
| 100px | fireboat 17 | 1893 | 1930 | |
| 100px | fireboat 23 | 1897 | 1922 | |
| fireboat 15 | 1903 | 1952 | ||
| fireboat 29 | 1906 | 1948 | ||
| 100px | Torrent | 1922 | 1949 | Presviously served a private railroad in Two Harbors, Minnesota |
| Deluge | 1949 | 1984 | ||
| Roamer | 1963 | 1984 | Initially powered by waterjets, her propulsion had to be converted to conventional propellers. | |
| fireboat 1 | 1984 | 1993 | This was a military surplus amphibious truck | |
| 100px | Fireboat 1 | 2007 | Metalcraft Marine 36' fireboat |
References
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{{cite news
| url = https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2018/02/22/plenty-of-horne-third-ward-firehouse-conversion-approved/
| title = Third Ward Firehouse Conversion Approved: 1915 riverfront building at foot of Water Street Bridge to become three unit "family retreat."
| work = Urban Milwaukee
| author = Michael Horne
| date = 2018-02-22
| accessdate = 2018-02-23
| quote = The old building served as the headquarters of the city’s water-borne fire fighting fleet, and for other municipal functions. Its final use was as a lifeboat station in 1984.
}}
{{cite web
| url = http://www.ship-wreck.com/shipwreck/fireboat/
| title = Milwaukee Fireboat #23 - August F. Janssen
| year = 2007
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160917020046/http://www.ship-wreck.com/shipwreck/fireboat/
| url-status = dead
| archivedate = 2016-09-17
}}
{{cite book
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9oc-nyt8CssC&q=fireboat+McGonagle&pg=PA220
| title = The Missabe Road: The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway
| author = Frank Alexander King
| publisher = University of Minnesota Press
| year = 1972
| isbn = 9780816640836
| accessdate = 2016-08-29
| quote = The other two, the William A. McGonagle and the Torrent, were somewhat unusual in that they were equipped for firefighting.
}}
{{cite news
| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UPUZAAAAIBAJ&pg=1975,220442&dq=milwaukee+fire+department+fireboat&hl=en
| title = Deluge Is Launched at Bay City, Mich. Is Duly Christened and Will Be Ready in May
| publisher = The Milwaukee Journal
| author = George Archer
| date = 1949-04-01
| page = 25
| accessdate = 2012-08-24
| quote =
}}
{{cite news
| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3m0aAAAAIBAJ&pg=4293,4954670&dq=milwaukee+fire+department+fireboat&hl=en
| title = Fireboat System Something Special
| publisher = The Milwaukee Journal
| author = Mary Ann Cahill
| date = 1978-08-08
| page = 40
| accessdate = 2012-08-24
| quote =
}}
{{cite news
| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aWoaAAAAIBAJ&pg=5312,5275612&dq=milwaukee+fire+department+fireboat+deluge&hl=en
| title = Old city fireboat retires in October
| publisher = The Milwaukee Journal
| author = Paul Bargren
| date = 1984-02-09
| page = 12
| accessdate = 2012-08-24
| quote =
}}
{{cite news
| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=I14bAAAAIBAJ&pg=6600,1879340&dq=milwaukee+fire+department+fireboat+deluge&hl=en
| title = Firefighter boat called unsafe by union chief
| publisher = The Milwaukee Sentinel
| author = Bruce Gill
| date = 1986-03-08
| page = 3
| accessdate = 2012-08-24
| quote =
}}
{{cite book
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=zvvYTPNODu0C&q=fireboat&pg=PA20
| title = Milwaukee Fire Department
| author = Wayne Mutza
| publisher = Arcadia Publishing
| year = 2005
| page = 105
| isbn = 9780738534343
| accessdate = 2018-02-23
}}
}}
Category:Firefighting in Wisconsin
Category:Government of Milwaukee
Category:Water transportation in Wisconsin
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