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The '''''Port Houston''''', commissioned in 1926, was the first [[fireboat]] to serve the [[Houston]] area.<ref name=Hpa2014-05-14/> She was replaced by the ''[[Captain Crotty]]'' in 1950. | The '''''Port Houston''''', commissioned in 1926, was the first [[fireboat]] to serve the [[Houston]] area.<ref name=Hpa2014-05-14/> She was replaced by the ''[[Captain Crotty]]'' in 1950. | ||
Revision as of 20:54, 19 May 2022
The Port Houston, commissioned in 1926, was the first fireboat to serve the Houston area.[1] She was replaced by the Captain Crotty in 1950.
According to the Transactions of The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, the Port Houston was the world's first diesel-electric fireboat.[2]
References
- ↑ State-of-the-Art Emergency Response Vessel Headed Home, Port of Houston Authority, 2014-05-14. Retrieved on 2019-08-30. “In 1924, a fire in the hold of a steamship carrying cotton prompted the Houston Fire Commissioner to declare that the Port of Houston needed adequate firefighting apparatus to attack fires from water as well as land. A bond election to pay for the city's first fireboat passed with a wide margin. This election occurred just one day after a fire along the banks of the Houston Ship Channel spread to oil on the water and burned for more than two hours, with flames as high as 40 feet.”