Fireboats of Long Beach, California

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As a major port, Long Beach, California authorities have owned and operated Fireboats in Long Beach.[1] Although administered separately the port facilities of Los Angeles and Long Beach are adjacent, and, together, form one of the largest container ports in the world.[2] Los Angeles and Long Beach have an arrangement where one port will loan fireboats to the other, in case of need.

image name launched notes
Charles S. Windham 1942
  • The city's first fireboat.[3]
Fireboat 1 1954
  • Fireboat 1, Long Beach's second fireboat.[4]
Fireboat 2 1954
  • Fireboat 2, Long Beach's third fireboat.[4]
The Challenger, a Long Beach California fireboat -a.jpg
 Challenger 1987
  • The Los Angeles Times reported that the Challenger and Liberty began to show maintenance problems due to poor construction within two years of their delivery.[2]
  • Capable of pumping 10,000 Gallons per minute.[2]
Liberty 1987
  • The Liberty had the same corrosion problems as her sister ship, the Challenger, and by September 1988 the Long Beach Harbour Commission had to allocate an addition $883,000 to repair the vessels.[5]
EndlessSummerHB 20161022 276 (30490552126) (cropped).jpg Protector 2014
  • Commissioned on June 8, 2016.[6]
  • Designed to mount water cannons capable of fighting fires on the largest modern container ships.[1][7]
Vigilance 2015
  • Commissioned on November 13, 2017.[8]
  • Design identical to Protector.

Workboat magazine reported, on June 14, 2017, that Long Beach planned to spend $100 million USD to construct two new firestations for its two new fireboats.[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Powerful fireboat christened at Foss Maritime". Marine Log. 2014-04-15. Archived from the original on 2014-05-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20140516125623/http://www.marinelog.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=6711:powerful-fireboat-christened-at-foss-maritime&Itemid=229. "Fireboat 20 and its sister are replacements for two older fireboats, the Liberty and Challenger." 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chris Woodyard (1988-04-27). "2 Long Beach Fireboats Gathering Rust". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2012-02-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20120204125502/http://articles.latimes.com/1988-04-27/local/me-1822_1_long-beach. Retrieved 2014-05-16. "After spending $4.4 million for two state-of-the-art fireboats, the Port of Long Beach is struggling to keep the vessels from becoming floating rust buckets." 
  3. ↑ Glen Goodrich (2005). Long Beach Fire Department: Images of America. Arcadia Publishing. p. 55. ISBN 9780738530017. http://books.google.ca/books?id=E5vBxkzgbVwC&pg=PA55&dq=fireboat+%22long+beach%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Crt3U6SoCsKSyATO-4CgDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=fireboat%20%22long%20beach%22&f=false. Retrieved 2014-05-17. "In 1942, the City of Long Beach commissioned the building of its first fireboat, the Charles S. Windham. The Windham was built by Wilmington Boats Works and financed by the Harbor Department." 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Erin Kurinsky. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140517225531/http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/csudh/spcoll/longbeachfiredepartmentead.pdf "INVENTORY OF THE LONG BEACH FIREMAN'S HISTORICAL MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPHS COLLECTION, 1840-1971, bulk 1906-1971"] (pdf). University of California. p. 8,9. Archived from the original on 2014-05-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20140517225531/http://pdf.oac.cdlib.org/pdf/csudh/spcoll/longbeachfiredepartmentead.pdf. 
  5. ↑ Chris Woodyard (1988-09-29). "Long Beach to Spend $883,000 to Save 2 Fireboats". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2012-05-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20140516170354/http://articles.latimes.com/1988-09-29/news/hl-5847_1_long-beach-boats. Retrieved 2014-05-16. "The commission is paying $653,000, the largest chunk of the funds, to a Terminal Island boatyard to correct design and construction deficiencies and to fix corrosion damage on the twin $2.2-million Challenger and Liberty, which were delivered to the city within the past two years." 
  6. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named LBGazette2016-06-05
  7. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Everything2016-06-09
  8. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named workboat2017-11-13
  9. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Workboat2017-06-14
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